Performance study of LANs that use intra-building power lines for data transmission

• Main Author: Chan, Gabin.
• Other Authors: Ng, Chee Hock
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/19734
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Intra-building power lines provide a readily available channel for LANs (Local Area Networks) communications within a building. However, power lines, which were not designed for data communications, are found to suffer from high and unpredictable variations in impedance, signal attenuation and noise...