Enhancing powerline communications in the "Smart Grid" using OFDMA

AUPEC'09 - 19th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference: Sustainable Energy Technologies and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bannister, Stuart ^a   Beckett, Paul ^b  

^a Semitech Innovations Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Measurement and automation; OFDMA; Power line communications; Power systems instrumentation; Power systems modelling; Smart grid; Smart metering

Indexed keywords

POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS; POWER SYSTEMS; POWER SYSTEMS INSTRUMENTATION; SMART GRID; SMART METERING;

COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENTS; MESH GENERATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 76249115437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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