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Erschienen in: Telecommunication Systems 4/2020

24.10.2019

PLC-RF diversity: channel outage analysis

verfasst von: Frank Nonso Igboamalu, Alain Richard Ndjiongue, Hendrik Christoffel Ferreira

Erschienen in: Telecommunication Systems | Ausgabe 4/2020

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Abstract

Signals from indoor access points in a wireless fidelity suffer from high attenuation as a result of the thick walls and metal structures in the multilevel-storey buildings where they are deployed. This is due to the scattering of the retransmitted signals by the thick walls and metal structures. Power line communication (PLC) technology is considered as a solution to overcoming this challenge. In this paper, a combination of the RF and PLC technologies is proposed for achieving signal transmission in indoor environments taking into account the presence characteristic of multilevel-storey buildings. Diversity Combining techniques, namely, selection combining (SC) and maximum ratio combining (MRC) are exploited to recover the retransmitted message, then the outage probability for both the SC and the MRC are proposed. Furthermore, we analyze the hybrid system estimated implementation cost.

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Metadaten
Titel
PLC-RF diversity: channel outage analysis
verfasst von
Frank Nonso Igboamalu
Alain Richard Ndjiongue
Hendrik Christoffel Ferreira
Publikationsdatum
24.10.2019
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Telecommunication Systems / Ausgabe 4/2020
Print ISSN: 1018-4864
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-9451
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-019-00624-1

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