Channel Measurements and Modelling for Indoor Power Line Communications

Abstract

In order to obtain power line communications channel transmission characteristics, impulse responses measurements were performed on the basis of PN sequence’s excellent periodic autocorrelation properties. Meanwhile, a compensation method in frequency domain was proposed to improve the measurement precision. Then, the empirical multipath channel model of power line is presented from the measured results. The simulation and experimental measurement results not only have verified the efficiency of the proposed model, but also showed that the measurement method has fast, simple and convenient characteristic. Finally, the statistical characteristics of path amplitude and the delay spread are obtained through the analysis of measured results. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/telkomnika.v11i4.2366