Advances of Power Line Communication (PLC)

Dear Colleagues,

Power line communication (PLC) yields technology to use the already installed wires for power delivery, also for information transmission. It may be considered as smart or green communication, since allows to establish a new transmission system without additional resources. Since the power network was not deployed to attend to transmission requirements, PLC channels are rather hostile compared to other wired connections, and they exhibit features closer to wireless links than to wired ones (e.g., notable attenuation in short distance, high interference, low privacy, etc.). Despite this fact, PLC technology has provided products with a remarkable performance for different applications both in broadband, such as multimedia home networking, and narrowband, such as control systems for the Internet-of-things (IoT) and Smart Grids.

This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in the analysis, design, and implementation of communication systems over power networks, with an emphasis on physical layer and medium access control layer issues.

Dr. Francisco J. Cañete
Guest Editor

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