In this paper, we give an overview of the power line communication (PLC) technology. This paper presents an overview of the research, applications, standards and importance of the power line communication. Power line communication is an emerging home network technology that allows consumers to use their already existing wiring system to connect home appliances to each other and to the Internet....

In a two-wire (no chassis ground) input offline power supply system, a filter capacitor Cz is often connected between the primary side and the secondary side of the transformer for common-mode electromagnetic interference reduction. For threewire offline power supplies, such a capacitor is also sometimes used for the same purpose. It is unclear how this filter capacitor works. In this paper, an...

In this paper a model for the disturbances on power line channels is represented. The model is based on extensive long-term measurements in office and home environments. The parameters of the model are based on random variables with space-dependent statistical distributions. A substantial advantage of this concept is its simple adaptation to new types of environment. This adaptation can be real...

During the last years PLC technologies have been widely developed mainly due to new modulation techniques used for wireless telecommunication systems that can also be applied to PLC systems. The current state of the art of PLC communications is presents many possibilities and opportunities for the utilities. Besides the Distributed Energy Resources integration to the distribution grid is The ai...

The demanding requirements of future home networks will require a hybrid approach where multiple communication media are used in a coordinated manner. Wireless and powerline communication (PLC) are a natural combination due to their ability to provide extensive in-home coverage. In this work, we present measurement results from a recent study on wireless/PLC diversity [1] and propose an alterna...