Performance Assessment Under Different Impulsive Noise Models for Narrowband Powerline Communications

摘要

For narrow-band powerline communications (NB-PLC). the dominant impulsive noise (IN) is cyclostationary noise and periodic noise. However, some existing works still apply the Middle class-A (MCA) IN model in an NB-PLC system. By applying the cyclic spectral analysis technique, we show that the MCA IN model cannot capture the nature of cyclostationary noise and periodic noise.