Powerline communications: The effects of branches on network performance

2006 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications, ISPLC'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 70-75

  Anatory, Justinian ^a   Kissaka, M M ^a   Mvungi, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Branched network; Channel model; Channel performance; Modulation; Powerline communications; Quadrature amplitude modulation

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

ACCESS CHANNEL MODEL; BRANCHED NETWORK; CHANNEL PERFORMANCE; POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS;

CARRIER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 36249026289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/isplc.2006.247439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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