Capacity of overhead medium voltage power line communication channels

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 723-733

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

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Broadband over power lines modeling; Channel capacity; Electromagnetic interference (EMI) and compatibility (EMC); Modal analysis in multiwire transmission; Power line communications

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES; BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES MODELING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE (EMI) AND COMPATIBILITY (EMC); TRANSMISSION POWER;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MODAL ANALYSIS; PLASTIC MOLDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; TOPOLOGY; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950188992     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2034907     Document Type: Article

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