Performance Analysis and Modeling of Broadband Power line Communications

Broadband Power line (BPL) Communications is a promising technique to transmit communication data, without huge investment. This paper presents a BPL software simulator which is used to study the Bit Error Rate (BER) of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system under impulsive noise class and multipath effect. The model also takes into consideration, the error correction coding, for security. The software simulator is to be used to study the performance enhancement of the BPL system.

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