Ultra wideband powerline communication (PLC) above 30 MHz

Author

Chen, S. ; Setta, M. ; Chen, Xia ; Parini, Clive G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of London, London, UK

Volume

3

Issue

10

fYear

2009

fDate

10/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1587

Lastpage

1596

Abstract

A novel study of ultra wideband (UWB) communication over the indoor powerline channel, in a wide frequency range up to 1 GHz is presented. An exhaustive measurement campaign was conducted on a test bed that replicated the environment of an indoor powerline network. The aim of this study was to observe and analyse the transmission and noise properties of such a broadband powerline channel. A time domain channel model has been used to study the broadband channel response of the powerline. Measurement and modelling results show that the indoor powerline channel provides a communication link in the 50-550 MHz frequency range. Channel capacity is greatly enhanced by exploiting the 500 MHz bandwidth. The conclusions of this study indicate that gigabit per second data rate transmission are possible over the indoor powerline channel in 50-550 MHz.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; channel capacity; indoor radio; radiofrequency interference; ultra wideband communication; bandwidth 50 MHz to 550 MHz; broadband channel response; broadband powerline channel; channel capacity; indoor powerline channel; ultra wideband powerline communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IET

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1751-8628

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/iet-com.2008.0557

Filename

5259227