Features

• Focuses on MIMO and multi-user aspects with respect to power line communications
• Provides a detailed state-of-the-art review on MIMO channel and noise characteristics and modeling approaches
• Brings together contributions by top industrial experts and key academic professors, making it practical enough to understand how PLC technologies work and scientific enough to form a solid base for ongoing R&D activities
• Delivers comprehensive coverage with extensive cross-referencing features, making it suitable as a reference or handbook
• Explains the latest developments in international PLC standardization
• Highlights the potential for new technologies, markets, and PLC product differentiation

Summary

Subdivided into six major thematic parts, this book provides profound insight into power-line MIMO channel and noise aspects in Part I and Part II respectively. Building on this foundation and taking into account electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) aspects in Part III, Part IV describes MIMO and multi-user strategies in use in currently deployed systems. Part V then looks at advanced options of MIMO and multi-user processing technologies, drawing from a wide variety of research areas such as linear and nonlinear signal processing, space-time-coding, convex optimization, scheduling, and game theory. The book is rounded off by Part VI on case studies and field trials, where the advanced technologies of tomorrow are put into practice today.