Oblique projection-based interference suppression for MIMO power line communication

Abstract

In this paper, it is proved that in multi-conductor power line communication (PLC), spatial multiplexing can be achieved not only in different transmission modes but also in a same transmission mode, which means that spatial multiplexing technique can suppress the interference from any transmission modes. With this conclusion, a co-channel interference (CCI) suppression method based on oblique projection is proposed for multi-conductor PLC. In this method, the oblique projection operator which maps the received signal to the signal space along the interference space is estimated based on second-order statistics of the received data, and then the CCI can be suppressed by the oblique projection operator. The simulation results reveal the validity of the proposed method.