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Channel Characterization for Indoor Power-Line Networks
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 24:1883-1888
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009.
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Abstract
- Power-line networks are promising mediums by which broadband services can be offered, such as Internet services, voice over Internet protocol, digital entertainment, etc. In this paper, an analysis of delay spread, coherence bandwidth, channel capacity, and averaged delay in the frequency bands up to 100 MHz for typical indoor power-line networks are studied. Earlier studies for indoor power-line networks considered frequencies up to 30 MHz only and earlier works have shown that at these frequency bands, the data rates are generally low and are inefficient for digital entertainment in comparison with wireless local-area networks standards, such as IEEE 802.11 n. In this paper, it is shown that at 100 MHz, the average channel capacity for typical indoor power-line networks can be up to 2 Gb/s and it is found that by increasing the number of branches in the link between transmitting and receiving ends, the average channel capacity decreases from 2 Gb/s to 1 Gb/s (when the number of branches was increased by four times for a power spectral density of -60 dBm/Hz). At the same time, the coherence bandwidth decreased from 209.45 kHz to 137.41 kHz, which is much better than the coherence bandwidths corresponding to 30-MHz systems. It is therefore recommended to operate the indoor power-line networks at 100-MHz bandwidths for a wide variety of broadband services.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
business.industry
Electrical engineering
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Radio spectrum
Delay spread
Channel capacity
Power-line communication
Broadband
Bandwidth (computing)
Electronic engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Coherence bandwidth
Communication channel
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19374208 and 08858977
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ba9a9a121d1f15d2953c0738f7c57afa
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrd.2009.2021044