Design and Performance Analysis of Power Line Communication Networks Under Impulsive Noise in Smart Home

Power line communication (PLC) is an attractive approach to provide information transfer services for the smart home. The PLC network inherently suffers from the severe channel fading and impulsive noise. According to the mode of impulsive and the impulsive occurrence, the PLC channel can be modeled as the channel with memory. We compute the achievable rate by employing the Markov process with a finite number of states based on the dependence among the impulsive occurrence numbers in different time slots. Furthermore, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) for the received signal-to-noise ratio is derived with the statistical characteristics of the PLC channel. This helps in obtaining the ergodic capacity and outage probability for the PLC channels. We finally present the simulation results to verify the analytical results.