저압 전력선 채널 특성을 고려한 OFDM변조 전송

본 연구는 최근 새로운 통신 방식으로 제안되고 있는 저압 전력선 통신에 대해서 검토한다. 저압 전력선 통신을 위한 지연, 감쇠, 주파수 선택적 페이딩의 특성을 갖는 전력선채널의 모델링과 함께 이 채널 특성에 다중 반송파 변조의 일종인 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)방식을 적용해 봄으로써 전력선 통신에 OFDM변조 방식이 적합한지 분석한다

This paper is about power line communication(PLC) over the low power voltage grid. The main advantage with power line communication is the use of an existing infrastructure. The PLC channel can be modeled as having multi-path propagation with frequency-selective fading, typical power lines exhibit signal attenuation increasing with length and frequency. OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is a modulation technique where multiple low data rate carriers are combined by a transmitter to form a composite high data rate transmission. To implement the multiple carrier scheme using a bank of parallel modulators would not be very efficient in analog hardware. Each carrier in an OFDM is a sinusoid with a frequency that is an integer multiple of a base or fundamental sinusoid frequency. Therefore, each carrier is a like a Fourier series component of the composite signal. In fact, it will be shown later that an OFDM signal is created in the frequency domain, and then transformed into the time domain via the Discrete Fourier Transform(DFT).