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On the performance of a turbo-coded DFT-spread FBMC over realistic powerline communication channels

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Nowadays, Power Line Communication (PLC) is increasingly recognized as a serious alternative to broadband data transmission in several contexts such as Smart Grids. However, PLC systems performances suffer mainly from impulsive noise which is a consequence of impedance-level variation and attenuation. In this paper, we propose a very promising PLC system structure for an efficient impulsive noise mitigation with a view to novel access technologies such as 5G. The proposed solution takes advantage of a turbo-coded PAPR-efficient FBMC modulation and channel equalization. Simulation tests showed that the proposed method achieves a distinct enhancement in the PAPR performance compared to other existing methods without affecting the BER performance. The proposed solution, thus, stands for a serious candidate for reliable transmissions in the presence of PLC channel impairments and multipath effect.

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    Ramdane Kechad & Abdelkrim Ouafi

  2. Embedded System Design Team, Centre de Développement des Technologies, Avancées (CDTA), Algiers, Algeria

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Kechad, R., Ouafi, A. On the performance of a turbo-coded DFT-spread FBMC over realistic powerline communication channels. SIViP 17, 679–686 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-022-02275-3

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