@inproceedings{83b00bc5ddb844b3872cf2c252c25d28,
title = "Single Carrier and Multicarrier Digital Modulation Performance under Impulsive and Background Noise: BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK and 8QAM",
abstract = "Power Line Communications (PLC) is positioning itself as the most natural communication technology for smart grid since it uses the existing power cables. However, the PLC channel still suffers from the devastating effects of impulsive noise. This paper investigates the effect of random impulsive noise on PSK, QAM and OFDM. The performance analyses results of M-PSK, 8-QAM and BPSK-OFDM are presented, showing the devastating effect of impulsive noise. We then go further by comparing the performance of BPSK to that of BPSK-OFDM and QPSK, 8-PSK to that of 8-QAM, showing that depending on the impulsive noise probability, 8-QAM outperforms 8-PSK and BPSK, BPSK-OFDM and QPSK have similar performance when the impulsive noise probability equal to 1 and subjected to the same impulse noise power.",
keywords = "BER, Background noise, Impulsive noise, PSK, QAM",
author = "Axel Bondelo and Thokozani Shongwe",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society and Industrial Applications Society PowerAfrica, PowerAfrica 2018 ; Conference date: 26-06-2018 Through 29-06-2018",
year = "2018",
month = nov,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1109/PowerAfrica.2018.8521018",
language = "English",
series = "2018 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, PowerAfrica 2018",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "342--347",
booktitle = "2018 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, PowerAfrica 2018",
address = "United States",
}