Abstract
We develop a general channel model in broadband power-line communications (BPLC) network using infinite geometric series and the description matrices. The developed general channel model can handle arbitrary PLC channel links easily; thus, we can calculate accurate channel characteristics without increasing computing complexity. For considering the effect of the various branches of the network, we investigate the characteristics of the channel links with adjacent nodes composed of multiple branches. We conduct the simulations by varying the degree of distantness of the adjacent nodes and the number of branches at the nodes. Our simulation results suggest that we should consider adjacent nodes with a degree of distantness up to one for the arbitrary channel links; these were not considered in previous studies. This enables us to calculate accurate channel responses of the arbitrary channel links of indoor BPLC networks.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 5710613 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1432-1439 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 Jul |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received November 26, 2009; revised August 04, 2010, October 21, 2010, November 23, 2010; accepted December 18, 2010. Date of publication February 10, 2011; date of current version June 24, 2011. This work was supported in part by the Brain Korea 21 Project in 2009 and in part by the World Class University (WCU) Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (R31-10008). Paper no. TPWRD-00870-2009.
Keywords
- Adjacent nodes
- channel model
- multiple branches
- power-line communications (PLC)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering