Broadband Power Line Noise Modeling and Compensation

Broadband Power Line Communication (BPLC) has become more popular in the Smart Grid context as it allows broadband access, media sharing, automated meter reading etc. However, it still remains as a challenging task to characterize and compensate for the impairments of the power-line networks for high-speed communications. In the scope of this book, both broadband noise and home appliance noise are characterized, a frequency domain based noise model is proposed and an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based receiver is developed using the proposed noise model. Promising results have been shown by utilization of the noise model in the receiver.