MIMO Power Line Communications

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HomePlug AV2: Next-Generation Broadband over Power Line^*

Larry Yonge, Jose Abad, Kaywan Afkhamie, Lorenzo Guerrieri, Srinivas Katar, Hidayat Lioe, Pascal Pagani, Raffaele Riva, Daniel M. Schneider and Andreas Schwager

CONTENTS

14.1  Introduction

14.2  System Architecture

14.2.1  Brief Overview of HomePlug AV

14.2.2  HomePlug AV2 Technology

14.3  PHY Layer Improvements of HomePlug AV2

14.3.1  Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Capabilities with Beamforming

14.3.1.1  MIMO Stream Parser

14.3.1.2  Precoding

14.3.1.3  Beamforming and Quantisation of the Beamforming Matrix

14.3.1.4  Power Allocation

14.3.1.5  Precoding Grouping

14.3.2  Extended Frequency Band up to 86 MHz

14.3.3  Efficient Notching

14.3.3.1  Influence of Windowing on Spectrum and ...