On the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued OFDM-based PLC

© 2016 IEEE. To mitigate the impulsive noise in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based power-line communications (PLC), a blanker can be employed at the receiver. In the literature, the performance of the blanker has been discussed and analyzed thoroughly. However, the analysis was...

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Main Authors: Juwono, Filbert Hilman, Guo, Q., Huang, D., Chen, Y., Xu, L., Wong, K.
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Published: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73231
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author Juwono, Filbert Hilman
Guo, Q.
Huang, D.
Chen, Y.
Xu, L.
Wong, K.
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Guo, Q.
Huang, D.
Chen, Y.
Xu, L.
Wong, K.
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description © 2016 IEEE. To mitigate the impulsive noise in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based power-line communications (PLC), a blanker can be employed at the receiver. In the literature, the performance of the blanker has been discussed and analyzed thoroughly. However, the analysis was limited only to passband OFDM PLC systems with complex-valued baseband representation. This paper aims to derive a mathematical expression of the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a blanker in baseband OFDM-based PLC, which are real-valued and used in some PLC standards. We also analyze the performance of separate real/imaginary blanking, instead of the traditional amplitude blanking, in passband OFDM-based PLC systems. It will be shown that the performance of amplitude blanking is similar to separate real/imaginary blanking in high signal-to-impulsivenoise ratio (SINR) values. However, when the SINR is low, the performance of amplitude blanking is better than the separate real/imaginary blanking. The difference is about 1 dB for SINR = -10 dB and 1.5 dB for SINR = -30 dB when signalto- background-noise ratio, SBNR = 25 dB and impulsive noise probability p = 0.01.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-732312018-12-13T09:35:23Z On the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued OFDM-based PLC Juwono, Filbert Hilman Guo, Q. Huang, D. Chen, Y. Xu, L. Wong, K. © 2016 IEEE. To mitigate the impulsive noise in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based power-line communications (PLC), a blanker can be employed at the receiver. In the literature, the performance of the blanker has been discussed and analyzed thoroughly. However, the analysis was limited only to passband OFDM PLC systems with complex-valued baseband representation. This paper aims to derive a mathematical expression of the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a blanker in baseband OFDM-based PLC, which are real-valued and used in some PLC standards. We also analyze the performance of separate real/imaginary blanking, instead of the traditional amplitude blanking, in passband OFDM-based PLC systems. It will be shown that the performance of amplitude blanking is similar to separate real/imaginary blanking in high signal-to-impulsivenoise ratio (SINR) values. However, when the SINR is low, the performance of amplitude blanking is better than the separate real/imaginary blanking. The difference is about 1 dB for SINR = -10 dB and 1.5 dB for SINR = -30 dB when signalto- background-noise ratio, SBNR = 25 dB and impulsive noise probability p = 0.01. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73231 10.1109/TSG.2016.2606643 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc restricted
spellingShingle Juwono, Filbert Hilman
Guo, Q.
Huang, D.
Chen, Y.
Xu, L.
Wong, K.
On the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued OFDM-based PLC
title On the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued OFDM-based PLC
title_full On the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued OFDM-based PLC
title_fullStr On the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued OFDM-based PLC
title_full_unstemmed On the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued OFDM-based PLC
title_short On the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued OFDM-based PLC
title_sort on the performance of blanking nonlinearity in real-valued ofdm-based plc
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73231