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Design of High Speed Power-Line Communication Modem in Low Frequency Band

저주파수 대역용 고속 전력선 통신 모뎀의 설계

  • Published : 2009.04.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we design and implement a high speed power-line communication modem, supported up to the transmission rate of 480kbps in a lower frequency band of under 450kHz. The power-line channel model is discussed in the sense of the lower frequency band, and the transmission technique of OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is considered to improve the throughput effectively. According to the power-line channel variation, the designed modem can select the modulation mapping between a 16-QAM(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) or a QPSK(Quadrature Phase Shift Keying). Thus, it makes a sufficient QoS even in a poor channel environments. With a implementation result, we show that it gives a variable transmission rate of 480kbps or 240kbps in the signal bandwidth of $50kHz{\sim}450kHz$.

본 논문에서는 450kHz 이하의 저주파수 대역에서 480kbps급으로 동작하는 고속 전력선 통신 모뎀을 설계 및 구현하였다. 저주파수 대역에서의 전력선 채널모델을 검토하였으며, 협대역 채널환경 아래에서 고속의 데이터 전송을 위하여 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 기법을 사용하였다. 또한 전력선 채널상태에 따라 16-QAM(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) 또는 QPSK(Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) 변조방식으로 가변 전송함으로써 열악한 채널환경에서도 QoS를 만족할 수 있도록 설계되었다. 실험 결과, 설계된 모뎀은 신호대역폭 $50kHz{\sim}450kHz$에서 변조방식에 따라 각각 480kbps 또는 240kbps의 가변 전송률을 제공함을 확인하였다.

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