A Practical Guide to Power Line Communications

A rigorous description of the theory and practice of power-line communication.

Christina Vlachou (Author), Sébastien Henri (Author)

9781108835480, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 May 2022

260 pages
25 x 17.5 x 1.6 cm, 0.62 kg

'This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn and understand how PLC networks work, what rationale leads to some protocol design choices, how PLC interoperates with WiFi and how the performance of PLC networks can be optimized. The academic researcher will enjoy a comprehensive and unified coverage of material that is so far missing from academic textbooks, and the practitioner will benefit from the authors' extensive experience in PLC networking to get useful advices on issues that appear across the entire protocol stack of PLC networks.' Patrick Thiran, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

This excellent resource synthesizes the theory and practice of PLC, providing a straightforward introduction to the fundamentals of PLC, as well as an exhaustive review of the performance, evaluation, security, and heterogeneous network that combine PLC with other means of communications. It advances the groundwork on power-line communication (PLC), a tool which has the potential to boost the performance of local networks, and provides useful worked practical problems on, for example, PLC protocol optimization. Covering the PHY and MAC layers of the most popular PLC specifications, including tutorials and experimental frameworks, and featuring many examples of real-world applications and performance, it is ideal for university researchers and professional engineers designing and maintaining PLC or hybrid devices and networks.

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I. How Does PLC Work?: 2. The PHY layer of PLC
3. The MAC layer of PLC
4. Experimental framework
Part II. How Does PLC Perform?: 5. PHY-layer performance evaluation
6. MAC-layer performance evaluation
Part III. Management, Security, and Further Applications: 7. Security in PLC
8. Heterogeneous networks and IEEE 1905
9. Conclusion
Index.

Subject Areas: Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Electrical engineering [THR], Energy technology & engineering [TH]