M.

ENG RESEARCH PROPOSAL DEFENCE

BY

KOLADE ENIOLA PRAISE

NDA/PGS/FE/EEE022019/P03164

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL/ ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY, KADUNA.

DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED ERROR CORRECTION TECHNIQUE IN POWERLINE

COMMUNICATION FOR HOMES AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICES

SUPERVISOR: DR SM SANI

DECEMBER, 2021
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 TOPIC

DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED ERROR CORRECTION

TECHNIQUE IN POWERLINE COMMUNICATION FOR HOMES
AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICES

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 OUTLINE
 Introduction.
 Problem Statement
 Aim and Objectives
 Scope of the Study
 Literature Review
 Research Gap
 Methodology
 Expected Result
 Conclusion
 References
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 INTRODUCTION
 Power Line Communication (PLC) is a technology that allows powerlines
to be used for data communication by transferring data over existing
powerlines.
 PLC technology use existing electrical power lines as a transmission
medium to provide data communications capabilities by coupling
modulated carrier signal onto the power line
 The rising ubiquity of data transmission has resulted in a fast growing need
for more bandwidth in the home and office during the last few years. The
hunt for novel ways to transmit data has led to the development of Power
Line Communications (PLC).

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 Introduction Cont’d
Plc attracts attention with communications in smart meters (AMI), home and
industry automation, in-vechile, e.t.c.

The utilization of PLC for local area networking in homes and offices is the
motivation for this project.

Error correction and detection codes will be implemented in the PLC system,
which would help reduce bit errors during transmission, thereby reducing
errors in the channel. 

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 PROBLEM STATEMENT
 In PLC various loads are connected to the same channel which delivers
power and data simultaneously.

 Linked loads are important causes of channel noise which leads to the
problem of missing data packets during transmission.

 The problem is that a high bit error rate (BER) degrades data transmission
quality and jeopardizes the PLC system's usability.

 To mitigate the problem stated above, this dissertation seeks to improve

PLC Bit error rate(BER) by using an error correction algorithm

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 AIM

The aim of carrying out this research is to develop an

improved error correction technique in powerline
communication for homes and internet of things (IoT) devices.

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 OBJECTIVES
1. To replicate the error correction algorithm in MIMO-PLC channel by [1].

2. To model and simulate a practical multipath PLC channel using

MATLAB2020a.

3. To evaluate and compare the performance of the improved algorithm to that of

[1].
 

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 BLOCK DIAGRAM

Figure 1.0 BLOCK DIAGRAM OF POWERLINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

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 SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH

The scope is to develop an improved error correction technique in powerline

communication for homes and internet of things (IoT) devices to improve bit
error rate (BER) and maximize the capacity of a PLC link by matching the
source information to the receiver information, to ensure that maximum signal
is transferred.

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 LITERATURE REVIEW
S/N Citation Title Summary of work Gap/Limitation
1 [1] Hybrid forward error correction coding The system design was carried out for a MIMO-PLC The use of BPSK as a
efficiency for MIMO-PLC with system. A hybrid coding (HC) scheme was proposed to modulation scheme could be
symmetric alpha-stable noise. improve the efficiency and robustness of a plc channel considered instead of using
under a heavy impulsive noise environment. In this 16-QAM.
system, the impact of HC is measured in terms of
performance gain.
2 [28] OFDM-based Power Line The authors presented the effect of BPSK, QPSK, and The study was limited to
Communication system for Smart Meter QAM modulation on a multipath OFDM powerline modulation schemes. As a
Data Transmission. channel. The bit error rate obtained from the system result, it is necessary to
showed that BPSK had the least bit error rate. combine modulation and
error correction approaches.

3 [24] Performance of Hybrid ARQ over Power The authors examined the performance of a PLC system Only the use of automatic
Line Communications Channels. under the influence of impulsive noise over Rayleigh repeat request (ARQ) was
and Log-Normal channel conditions. Hybrid automatic investigated by the
repeat request (HARQ) and chase combining technique researcher.
were combined to analyze how the PLC performed in
these conditions.
4 [26] A new efficient error control algorithm A new efficient error control algorithm based on a This research focused on
for wireless sensor networks in smart comparison of the Bose-Chaudhuri-Hochquengenghem wireless sensor networks
grid code and Reed Solomon code. The authors proposed a (WSNs) in the smart grid.
new adaptive error control (AEC) algorithm after the Hence, there is a need to
explore error control
comparison. algorithms for a PLC
channel.

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 RESEARCH GAP
 The literature survey carried out has shown that various error coding methods
have been employed in the past to reduce the bit error rate and to increase data
throughput.

 This research seek to implement error correction techniques which are

convolutional codes (CC) and quasi cyclic-low density parity check codes (QC-
LDPC) on a MIMO-OFDM based plc system.

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 MATERIALS AND METHODS
The following materials are required to carry out this research successfully:

a) MATLAB 2020a Simulink and Communication Toolbox

b) 64 bits OS PC

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 MATERIALS AND METHODS CONT’D

PROPOSED METHODS

Figure 2: Flowchart for the proposed error correction algorithm.

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 EXPECTED RESULT

The intended result at the end of this research work should show
that by utilizing the error correcting code, a low BER can be
achieved.

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EXPECTED CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE

 This work will contribute to the enhancement of bit error rate

(BER) of a PLC channel by obtaining a compelling modulation
scheme results and using an error algorithm to get a low bit error
rate (BER).

 This work is designed to boost the reliability of a plc channel.

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 BUDGET

S/NO COMPONENT/ ITEM PRICE (N)

1 MATLAB2020a 11,916.39

2 DATA SUBSCRIPTION 50,000

3 DOCUMENTATION 20,000

4 MISCELLANEOUS 5,000

TOTAL PRICE (N) 86,916.39

 

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 PROJECT STUDENT
GANTT
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CHART
START DATE 01/08/2021 END DATE 01/06/2021 OVERALL PROGRESS 15%
Note: A tick indicates a done task.
DURATION
A tick indicates a task to be done. 50 WEEKS DURATION IN MONTHS 12 MONTHS
IN WEEKS
A tick indicates a doing task .
DURATION IN MONTHS
TASK CRITERIA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
STATUS

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PRESENTATION OF TOPIC                
   
TO SUPERVISOR
             
LITERATURE REVIEW OF
SIMILAR WORK
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       
         
BRIEF METHODOLOGY     

        
         
PROPOSAL
DOCUMENTATION
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EXTENSIVE METHODOLOGY        

IMPLEMENTATION RESULTS
AND ANALYSIS
       
              

CONCLUSION AND
DOCUMENTATION
       
              

INTERNAL DEFENSE
PREPARATION
       
               

IMPLEMENTATION OF
CORRECTIONS
       
                

EXTERNAL DEFENSE        
              
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PREPARATION
 CONCLUSION

 A proposal on the development of an improved error correction technique in powerline

communication for homes and internet of things (IoT) devices has been provided with
grounds for achieving the aims and objectives.

 The proposed system will employ error correction codes to increase data throughput rates
and reliability in an inherently noisy environment, thereby reducing Bit error rate (BER).

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