This paper proposes an efficient channel impulse response (CIR)-based technique to detect
topology changes in the power grid. The features of the proposed approach include the …

Recently, many efforts have been made by researchers, standardization organizations,
telecommunication industries and energy providers, in order to realize robust and efficient …

Noise modeling in power line communications has recently drawn the attention of
researchers. However, when characterizing the noise process in narrowband …

This paper proposes an accurate physical layer technique to uniquely identify the links of a
power line communication network. First, the power line communications (PLC) multipath …

Physical layer security (PLS) has become a popular topic in the research community as a
complement to traditional security schemes. Particularly, by taking advantage of the …

Narrow-band (NB) power line communication (PLC) is a key technology for supporting
different smart grid applications. It uses the existing power-grid infrastructure to provide cost …

Noise measurement in power line communication (PLC) systems is a common activity
performed by grid operators for network tuning operations. Usually, these measurements are …

High-frequency signals were widely studied in the last decade to identify grid and channel
conditions in power lines. PLMs operating on the grid's physical layer are capable of …

Power line communication (PLC) has been proposed as a crucial part of smart grid
applications. This is due to its capacity to use existing power-grid infrastructure to provide …

This paper presents a low-complexity noise reduction scheme for orthogonal frequency-
division multiplexing (OFDM)-based power line communication (PLC) systems. The solution …