Interference mitigation techniques for narrowband powerline smart grid communications

Mahmoud Elgenedy, Mostafa Sayed, Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohamed Abdallah, Naofal Al-Dhahir

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Abstract

Narrowband cyclostationary interference severely limits the performance of power line communications (PLC) on low-voltage in the [3-500] kHz frequency band. For the IEEE 1901.2 narrowband PLC standard system parameters, this interference is not sparse in the time or the frequency domains making recently-proposed sparse interference mitigation techniques ineffective. In this paper, we investigate other properties of the interference; namely, its cyclostationarity and high spatial correlation across the three output phases to design effective and practical interference mitigation algorithms. The cyclostationarity is exploited to accurately estimate the interference's power spectral density in each of its three temporal regions and use it to enhance the Viterbi and/or Reed-Solomon decoder performance. The high spatial correlation is exploited to mitigate interference effects through cancellation or erasure decoding. Simulation results show considerable performance gains for both techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages368-373
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467382892
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Mar 2016
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2015 - Miami, United States
Duration: 1 Nov 20155 Nov 2015

Publication series

Name2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2015

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami
Period1/11/155/11/15

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