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A Power Line Communication Network Infrastructure for the Smart Home

Category: Software and Web Development, Networking and Communications

Overview Low voltage electrical wiring in homes has largely been dismissed as too noisy and unpredictable to support high speed communication signals. However, recent advances in communication and modulation methodologies as well as in adaptive digital signal processing and error detection and correction have spawned novel Media Access Control (MAC) and PHYsical layer (PHY) protocols, capable of supporting power line communication networks at speeds comparable to wired Local Area Networks (LANs). This paper motivates the use of power line LAN's as a basic infrastructure for building integrated "Smart homes," wherein Information Appliances (IA) - ranging from simple control or monitoring devices to multimedia entertainment systems - are seamlessly interconnected by the very wires which provide them electricity.

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Publisher: University of Florida
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Sep 11, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Multimedia, Network Design, TCP - IP

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