Broadband power-line communications: The channel capacity analysis

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 164-170

  Anatory, Justinian ^a   Theethayi, Nelson ^b   Thottappillil, Rajeev ^b   Kissaka, Mussa M ^a   Mvungi, Nerey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bbroadband power line; Branched network; Channel capacity; Frequency response; Indoor channel; Low voltage (LV) channel; Medium voltage (MV) channel; Multipath; Power line channel; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

LOW-VOLTAGE CHANNEL; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE CHANNEL; POWER-LINE COMMUNICATION;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 37749028964     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2007.911001     Document Type: Article

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