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Design of an in-home multicarrier broadband power line communication system for Tanzania homes

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dc.creator Victor, Crallet
dc.date 2019-09-02T11:16:43Z
dc.date 2019-09-02T11:16:43Z
dc.date 2012
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T13:46:56Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T13:46:56Z
dc.identifier Victor, C. (2012). Design of an in-home multicarrier broadband power line communication system for Tanzania homes. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1423
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1423
dc.description Dissertation (MSc Telecommunications Engineering)
dc.description Indoor broadband power-line communication (BPLC) networks with different number of branches, different terminal load impedance, different line length and impulsive noise using OFDM were considered. Earlier investigations have shown that the power-line channel suffers from multipath effects along with impulsive noise. In this dissertation the OFDM system was designed based on Anatory et al model using the impulse responses of typical Tanzania indoor power-line networks. It was observed that the maximum delay spread for such networks is 2μs, making the number of sub-channels for OFDM to be 512 with a cyclic prefix of 64 at a bandwidth of 16.5MHz. Bit error rate (BER) performance of the OFDM system under multipath effects was analysed based on the simulations of the four Tanzania indoor power-line networks at different load impedances with number of branches and branch length dictated by a particular home power-line network. It was observed that the performance of the OFDM system is affected by number of branches and load impedances. To maintain the bit error performance an average SNR per bit gain of 28dB is needed so that sustained communication is still available in all the four Tanzania indoor power-line networks. The OFDM system performance at the fixed load impedance within the same house was different indicating that the number of branches has the influence on the performance.
dc.publisher The University of Dodoma
dc.subject Broadband power line communication
dc.subject BPLC
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Power line networks
dc.subject Indoor power line networks
dc.subject Power line channels
dc.subject Tanzania indoor power line networks
dc.title Design of an in-home multicarrier broadband power line communication system for Tanzania homes
dc.type Dissertation


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