Joint peak amplitude and impulsive noise clippings in OFDM-based power line communications

Authors

Filbert H. Juwono, University of Western Australia
Qinghua Guo, University of WollongongFollow
Defeng (David) Huang, University of Western AustraliaFollow
Kitpo Wong, University of Western Australia

RIS ID

91396

Publication Details

F. H. Juwono, Q. Guo, D. (David). Huang & K. Po. Wong, "Joint peak amplitude and impulsive noise clippings in OFDM-based power line communications," in 19th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), 2013, pp. 567-571.

Abstract

Impulsive noise is one of the main channel impairments in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based power line communications (PLC). Clipping nonlinearites such as conventional clipping, blanking, joint blanking/clipping, and deep clipping have been proposed to mitigate the impulsive noise. However, OFDM systems result in high peak amplitude after inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) at the transmitter, which leads to large peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). High peak amplitude can be falsely clipped by the impulsive noise clipper at the receiver leading to poor system performance. In this paper we propose a joint peak amplitude clipping and impulsive noise clipping nonlinearities to improve the bit error rate (BER) performance.