Performance of practical receiver schemes for impulsive UWB modulation on a real MV power line network

Abstract

We consider the deployment of impulsive ultra wide band (I-UWB) modulation for power line communications (PLC) on medium voltage (MV) networks. We firstly describe several receiver structures, and practical channel detection algorithms based on a data-aided approach. The joint estimation of the channel response and the noise correlation is also considered. Then, we address the system performance on real MV channels. The channels have been measured in a real MV test network. Results are provided in terms of bit error rate, with a power spectral density constraint.