MC-CDMA transmission with blanking nonlinearity for impulsive noise power-line communication channels

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the application of multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC- CDMA) in impulsive noise power-line channels. In order to improve system performance, impulsive noise blanking is utilized at the receiver's front-end. For comparison-sake, three families of spreading codes are considered here, namely, pseudonoise (PN), Walsh-Hadamard (WH) and poly- phase (PP) sequences. Probability of blanking error P-b and output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performances are adopted to characterize the achievable gains. The results reveal that the proposed scheme is able to achieve considerable improvements in terms of P-b and output SNR performance. It is also shown that PP-based MC- CDMA yields the best overall performance with a 1.2 dB SNR gain relative to blanking-based orthogonal frequency division multiple access systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2015 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479980888
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Volume2015
ISSN (Print)1550-2252

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Blanking
  • Impulsive noise
  • MC-CDMA
  • Polyphase sequences
  • Power-line communications (PLC)
  • Pseudonoise codes
  • Symbol error rate (SER)
  • Walsh-Hadamard sequences

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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