Transmission characteristics of overhead medium-voltage power-line communication channels

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1164-1173

  Lazaropoulos, Athanasios G ^a   Cottis, Panayiotis G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Broadband over power lines (BPL) modeling; Modal analysis in multiwire transmission; Power line communications

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND OVER POWER-LINES (BPL) MODELING; BROADBAND SIGNAL; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; POWER LINES; POWER-LINE COMMUNICATIONS; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SPECTRAL BEHAVIORS; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MODAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 67650693085     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2008.2008467     Document Type: Article

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