An experimental validation for broadband power-line communication (BPLC) model

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1380-1383

  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

Branched network; Broadband power line; Frequency response; Indoor channel; Low voltage channel; Mediumvoltage channel; Multipath; Power line channel; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CHANNEL FREQUENCIES; CHANNEL TRANSFER FUNCTION (CTF); CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW-VOLTAGE (LV); MEDIUM VOLTAGE (MV); MODEL BASED (OPC); POWER LINE COMMUNICATION (PLC);

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 47149087870     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2008.916739     Document Type: Article

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