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Investigation on Factors Influencing the Channel Capacity of Power line Network for BPLC Systems

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dc.creator Anatory, Justinian
dc.creator Theethayi, Nelson
dc.creator Thottappillil, Rajeev
dc.creator Mvungi, Nerey H.
dc.creator Kissaka, Mussa
dc.date 2016-03-04T12:33:56Z
dc.date 2016-03-04T12:33:56Z
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:52:14Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:52:14Z
dc.identifier J Anatory, N Theetheyi, R Thottapillil, NH MVUNGI, M Kissaka, “Investigation on Factors Influencing the Channel Capacity of Power line Network for BPLC Systems”, Proceedings of IEEE Africon 2007 International Conference, 26-28 Sept. 2007, Windhoek, Namibia, paper 684, 6 pgs.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/608
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3440
dc.description Conference proceeding
dc.description Power line has been proposed as a solution to deliver broadband services to end users. Various studies in the recent past have reported the decrease in channel capacity with increase in number of branches for a given channel type (indoor channel or access (low voltage) channel or medium channel) [1- 4]. Those studies however did not provide a clear insight as to how the channel capacity is related to the number of distributed branches along the line. This paper attempts to quantify and characterize the effects of channel capacity in relation to number of branches and also with different terminal loads for a given type of channel. It is shown that for power spectral density (PSD) between -90dBm/Hz to -30dBm/Hz, the channel capacity decreases by 20-30Mbps/branch, 14-24Mbps/branch and 20- 25Mbps/branch for medium voltage channel, low voltage channel and indoor channel respectively. In additional, it is shown that the channel capacity is minimum when the load impedance is terminated in characteristic impedances for any type of channel treated here. It is shown that there could be significant loss in channel capacity if a ground return were used instead of adjacent conductor return. The analysis presented in the paper would help in designing appropriate power line communication equipment for better and efficient data transfer.
dc.description Sida-SAREC
dc.language en
dc.publisher IEEE
dc.subject channel capacity,
dc.subject power line channel,
dc.subject broadband power line,
dc.subject transfer function,
dc.subject multipath,
dc.subject branched network,
dc.subject medium voltage channel,
dc.subject indoor channel,
dc.subject low voltage channel,
dc.subject frequency response
dc.title Investigation on Factors Influencing the Channel Capacity of Power line Network for BPLC Systems
dc.type Conference Proceedings


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