Title :
Wide band AC power line characterization
Author :
Liu, D. ; Flint, E. ; Gaucher, B. ; Kwark, Arid Y.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
fDate :
11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper presents data characterizing the household AC power 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: power line background noise, appliance 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 AC power line based communications systems.
Keywords :
broadband networks; carrier transmission on power lines; delays; frequency response; noise; 1 to 60 MHz; AC power line based communications systems; appliance noise; background noise; delay spread; design; frequency response; household AC power line; impulse channel sounding method; line attenuation; noise sampling; transmission; wide band AC power line characterization; Acoustic noise; Attenuation measurement; Background noise; Delay; Frequency response; Home appliances; Noise measurement; Performance evaluation; Sampling methods; Wideband;
Journal_Title :
Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
