Design of a Power Line Communications Transceiver based on OFDM

Power Line Communications (PLC) is a technology that takes advantage of the existing electrical infrastructure to deploy communication networks. This paper proposes an architecture for the physical layer (PHY) of a PLC transceiver based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and inspired in the IEEE 1901 standard for Broadband PLC. The designed system is synthesized on a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA device, and supports data rates up to 107 Mbps. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).