High-frequency characteristics of overhead multiconductor power lines for broadband communications

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1292-1302

  Amirshahi, Pouyan ^a,b   Kavehrad, Mohsen ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Channel model; Ground admittance; Impulse response; Medium voltage; Power line communications

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODEL; GROUND ADMITTANCE; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746388921     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2006.874399     Document Type: Article

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