Contents
Part I Power Line Channel and Noise: Characteristics and Modelling
1. Introduction to Power Line Communication Channel and Noise Characterisation
Lars T. Berger, Pascal Pagani, Andreas Schwager and Piet Janse van Rensburg
2. Narrowband Characterisation in an Office Environment
Klaus Dostert, Martin Sigle and Wenqing Liu
3. Narrowband Measurements in Domestic Access Networks
Weilin Liu, Guangbin Chu and Jianqi Li
4. Broadband In-Home Characterisation and Correlation-Based Modelling
Kaywan Afkhamie, Paola Bisaglia, Arun Nayagam, Fabio Osnato, Deniz Rende, Raffaele Riva and Larry Yonge
5. Broadband In-Home Statistics and Stochastic Modelling
Andreas Schwager, Pascal Pagani, Daniel M. Schneider, Rehan Hashmat and Thierry Chonavel
Part II Regulations, Electromagnetic Compatibility and MIMO Capacity
6. Power Line Communication Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations
Andreas Schwager and Lars T. Berger
7. MIMO PLC Electromagnetic Compatibility Statistical Analysis
Andreas Schwager
8. MIMO PLC Signal Processing Theory
Daniel M. Schneider and Andreas Schwager
9. MIMO PLC Capacity and Throughput Analysis
Daniel M. Schneider, Pascal Pagani and Andreas Schwager
Part III Current PLC Systems and Their Evolution
10. Current Power Line Communication Systems: A Survey
Lars T. Berger, Andreas Schwager, Stefano Galli, Pascal Pagani, Daniel M. Schneider and Hidayat Lioe
11. Narrowband Power Line Standards
Stefano Galli and James Le Clare
12. ITU G.hn: Broadband Home Networking
Erez Ben-Tovim
13. IEEE 1901: Broadband over Power Line Networks
Arun Nayagam, Purva R. Rajkotia, Manjunath Krishnam, Markus Rindchen, Matthias Stephan and Deniz Rende
14. HomePlug AV2: Next-Generation Broadband over Power Line
Larry Yonge, Jose Abad, Kaywan Afkhamie, Lorenzo Guerrieri, Srinivas Katar, Hidayat Lioe, Pascal Pagani, Raffaele Riva, Daniel M. Schneider and Andreas Schwager
15. IEEE 1905.1: Convergent Digital Home Networking
Etan G. Cohen, Duncan Ho, Bibhu P. Mohanty and Purva R. Rajkotia
Part IV Advanced PHY and MAC Layer Processing
16. Smart Beamforming: Improving PLC Electromagnetic Interference
Daniel M. Schneider and Andreas Schwager
17. Radiation Mitigation for Power Line Communications Using Time Reversal.
Pascal Pagani, Amilcar Mescco, Michel Ney and Ahmed Zeddam
18. Linear Precoding for Multicarrier and Multicast PLC
Jean-Yves Baudais and Matthieu Crussière
19. Multi-user MIMO for Power Line Communications
Yago Sánchez Quintas, Daniel M. Schneider and Andreas Schwager
20. Relaying Protocols for In-Home PLC
Salvatore D’Alessandro and Andrea M. Tonello
Part V Implementations, Case Studies and Field Trials
21. Narrowband PLC Channel and Noise Emulation
Klaus Dostert, Martin Sigle and Wenqing Liu
22. Cognitive Frequency Exclusion in EN 50561-1:2012
Andreas Schwager
23. Mitigating PLC Interference to Broadcast Radio
Yang Lu and Weilin Liu
24. MIMO PLC Hardware Feasibility Study
Daniel M. Schneider and Andreas Schwager