Survey on Indoor Power Line Communication Channel Modeling

Abstract

Power line communication (PLC) offers a convenient and inexpensive medium for data transmission, however this technology still face a difficult challenge: the channel modeling. Although enormous effort has been devoted to determining accurate channel models for the power line, so far, there is not a widely accepted model in the PLC community. In this survey we present recent development and open research issues on PLC channel modeling. The discussion is focused on the modeling of indoor PLC, and in particular, on its transfer function. Then, we discuss the most representative indoor PLC modeling approaches that we found in the recent literature.