Power Line Communication Experiment using Wavelet OFDM in U.S..

Abstract

Recently, the demand of high speed network in home is increasing, and PLC is expected as one of the solutions. We can see related researches on the high speed PLC system using a frequency band 2 MHz to 30 MHz. In this paper, we propose a wavelet based OFDM as a suitable method for realizing the high speed PLC system. The proposed wavelet OFDM method is composed of the M-band transmultiplexer which consists of the perfect reconstruction cosine-modulated filter bank. And the attenuation of the first side-lobe is above 35dB, which is a characteristic of the proposed method. As a result, we show that the proposed method has the inter-carrier interference characteristic which is superior to FFT-OFDM, and it also provides the flexible notch filter function which can reduce the influence on other communication systems existing in the communication band which the PLC uses. Finally, we describe that the simulation results about the BER characteristic of the proposed method in AWGN were almost the same as the theory, and that transmission rates which were measured by using prototype modems in a field test house in U.S. were above 35Mbps.