Since we all have wires running throughout our houses to provide mains power, there’s a number of devices that piggyback on mains lines for communication. For his thesis project, [Haris Andrianakis] ...

Communicating with someone thousands of miles away is now just a few keystrokes away, thanks to the internet and other forms of communication. Modern communication leverages a variety of wired and ...

Since we all have wires running throughout our houses to provide mains power, there’s a number of devices that piggyback on mains lines for communication. For his thesis project, [Haris Andrianakis] ...

Whatever the type of modulation used, a PLC transceiver includes a few basic blocks. Different solutions use various levels of integration of these components, from full-digital modems with external ...

Fig 1. Semitech’s SM2200, a power-line communications packet-data modem transceiver, uses OFDMA to achieve up to 175-kbit/s data rates on low and medium power lines. Fig 2. OFDM simply splits one fast ...