Space Diversity in MIMO Power Line Channels with Independent Impulsive Noise
Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) has been employed for wireless communications in order to increase the reliability and improve the performance. In this paper MIMO is employed for Power Line Communications (PLC) in an effort to investigate the space diversity gain in PLC systems. It is shown in this paper that in the presence of impulsive noise, a combination of space and time coding is required to guarantee an improvement in performance. Furthermore, the dependency of impulsive noise to the background noise is being investigated.