Reliable Indoor Power Line Communication Systems: Via application of advanced relaying processing - Softcover

Wu, Xiaolin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3330002859 ISBN 13: 9783330002852

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

In addition to electricity delivery, the indoor power cables are now used as medium, at the meantime, to support local area networks. However, as power cables are not manufactured for high frequency signal transmission purpose, indoor power line communication (PLC) channels demonstrate hostile characteristics for broadband communications. As a solution, a series of relay schemes are suggested in this book to improve the transmission performance. As existing point-to-point indoor PLC channel models cannot be directly used for the scenario where relay devices have been plugged into the indoor power grid, based on transmission line theory, we propose a general method of modeling the relay-involved PLC channel. Different relay schemes are addressed for various situations, where one or more relay devices are used for one-way transmission or two-way information exchange applications. Simulation results show the efficiency of the proposed relay schemes. In particular, for the one-way relay-assisted transmission system, a novel transmission configuration for the source node can make the system benefit time diversity from the time-varying nature of the relay-involved PLC networks.

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About the Author

Xiaolin Wu received the Ph.D. degree from Curtin University, Perth, Australia, in electrical and computer engineering, in 2015. His research interests include power line communications, smart grid, wireless communications and networks, statistical and array signal processing, and adaptive signal processing for communications.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3330002859
• ISBN 13: 9783330002852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204