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Lookup NU author(s): Ghanim Al-Rubaye, Professor Harris Tsimenidis, Dr Martin Johnston
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In this paper, the performance of irregular low-density parity check (LPDC) coded orthogonalfrequency division multiplexing (COFDM) utilizing 4096 quadrature amplitude modulation (4096-QAM) is investigated over multipath power-line communication (PLC) channel. The effective complex-valued ratio distributions of the noise samples at the zero-forcing (ZF) equalizer output consideringboth frequency-selective multipath PLCs, background and impulsive noise are derived, in additionto the condition for optimum detection of 4096-QAM and the bit error rate (BER). Moreover, theperformance of the LDPC decoder is improved by computing the log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) requiredfor soft decoding based on the derived PDFs. Numerical results obtained using the newly derived LLRsdemonstrate a significant performance improvement compared to the conventional receiver that usesblanking impulsive noise mitigation method and LLRs computed based on the Gaussian distribution.Furthermore, EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) chart analysis demonstrates that the proposedapproach requires fewer iterations for convergence compared to the conventional receiver. Finally,utilizing channel bandwidth of 22.4 MHz, the proposed system offers an improvement of 111 Mbps2over the conventional system to reach a maximum data throughput of 256 Mbps for a signal to noiseratio (SNR) of 39 dB and BER of 10 −5 .
Author(s): Al-Rubaye GA, Tsimenidis CC, Johnston M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: IET Communications
Year: 2017
Volume: 11
Issue: 16
Pages: 2425-2432
Print publication date: 11/09/2017
Online publication date: 07/08/2017
Acceptance date: 25/07/2017
Date deposited: 08/08/2017
ISSN (print): 1751-8628
ISSN (electronic): 1751-8636
Publisher: IET
URL: https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2017.0265
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2017.0265
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