IEICE Trans - An Adaptive Receiver for Power-Line Communications with the Estimation of Instantaneous Noise Power

An Adaptive Receiver for Power-Line Communications with the Estimation of Instantaneous Noise Power

Yuichi HIRAYAMA
Hiraku OKADA
Takaya YAMAZATO
Masaaki KATAYAMA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Vol.E88-A No.3 pp.755-760
Publication Date: 2005/03/01
Online ISSN:
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.3.755
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Spread Spectrum Technologies and Applications
Keyword:
non-stationary noise, noise power estimation, MAP and adaptive receiver,

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Summary:
The noise on power-lines is non-stationary, while the instantaneous noise power in different frequency bands are dependent. Under such noise environments, the instantaneous noise power in a frequency band can be estimated by observing the noise in other frequency bands. In this paper, we propose a receiver structure which uses the estimated instantaneous noise power in the decoding process and show its superiority in BER performance to conventional systems.

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