Wide band home phone line characterization

Author

Liu, D. ; Flint, E. ; Gaucher, B. ; Kwark, Y.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Volume

46

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

86

Abstract

This paper presents data characterizing the household phone line in the 1-60 MHz band. Two types of measurements were performed: transmission and noise sampling. The transmission measurements were done by using the impulse channel sounding method, so both the line attenuation and the delay spread were obtained. The noise measurements include: phone line background noise, phone noise, and noise sampled over a 24 hour period. Statistical characteristics of the delay spread, frequency response and noise can be extracted from the data and used in the design of phone line based communications systems

Keywords

attenuation measurement; delays; electric noise measurement; frequency response; statistical analysis; subscriber loops; telephone lines; transient response; 1 to 60 MHz; HF; MF; VHF; delay spread; frequency response; household phone line; impulse channel sounding method; line attenuation; noise measurements; noise sampling; phone line background noise; phone line based communications systems design; phone line impedance; phone noise; statistical characteristics; transmission measurements; wideband home phone line; Acoustic noise; Attenuation measurement; Background noise; Data mining; Delay; Frequency response; Noise measurement; Performance evaluation; Sampling methods; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.826384

Filename

826384