Impact of loads on insertion gain and capacity for MIMO PLC channels

Author

Bouassam, Hamid ; Rifi, Mounir ; Degardin, Virginie

Author_Institution

Lab. RITM, Hassan II Univ., Casablanca, Morocco

fYear

2015

fDate

25-27 March 2015

Firstpage

150

Lastpage

153

Abstract

Power Line Communications (PLC) is used for information exchange over the lines installed for delivering the electrical power. In-home PLC is a technology which delivers telecom services to every corner of a household through already existing electrical wiring. The in-home PLC channel offers multiple signal feed ports as, usually, it comprises of three wires: Phase, Neutral and Protective Earth. The measurements and results presented in this paper shows the impact of load impedances connected to the electrical network on insertion gain and capacity for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) PLC channel.

Keywords

MIMO communication; carrier transmission on power lines; MIMO PLC channels; in-home PLC channel; information exchange; insertion gain; multiple input multiple output PLC channel; neutral wire; phase wire; power line communications; protective Earth wire; Conferences; Electric variables measurement; Gain measurement; Information technology; Load modeling; MIMO; Wiring; MIMO; Power Line Communication (PLC); channel capacity; channel characteristics; channel measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Information Technologies (ICEIT), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7478-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EITech.2015.7163002

Filename

7163002