Proc. IEEE Smart Grid Communications Conference,
Nov. 2-5, 2015, Miami, Florida USA.
Efficient Diversity Technique for Hybrid
Narrowband-Powerline/Wireless Smart Grid Communications
Mostafa Sayed (1),
Ghadi Sebaali (2)
Brian L. Evans (2)
and
Naofal Al-Dhahir (1)
(1) Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering,
The University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, TX USA.
Mostafa.Ibrahim@utdallas.edu -
aldhahir@utdallas.edu
(2) Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering,
Wireless Networking and Communications Group,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX USA
ghadi.sebaali@utexas.edu -
bevans@ece.utexas.edu
Paper Draft -
Lecture Slides
Smart Grid Communications Research at UT Austin
Abstract
Narrowband powerline communications (NB-PLC) and unlicensed
wireless communications are considered as two leading communications
technologies for emerging Smart Grid applications.
The diversity provided by the simultaneous transmission of the same
information over powerline and wireless links can be exploited to
enhance the overall system reliability.
In this paper, we propose an efficient technique to combine the
received signals of the NB-PLC and wireless links considering
the impulsive nature of the noise and interference on both links.
We derive an expression for the average bit-error-rate of the
proposed technique.
In addition, we present simulation results that quantify the
performance gains achieved by our proposed combining technique
compared to conventional techniques.
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