Coverage and capacity analysis of hybrid home networks

Author

Tinnakornsrisuphap, Peerapol ; Purkayastha, P. ; Mohanty, Bhawana

Author_Institution

Qualcomm Technol., San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

3-6 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

123

Abstract

A hybrid home network is a network consisting of hybrid devices capable of both Wi-Fi and powerline communications. We provide a comparison of coverage and capacity between hybrid, standalone Wi-Fi, and standalone powerline networks. We demonstrate that hybrid networks improve both the coverage and the capacity of a home network to simultaneously support high definition video streaming and mobile devices. The analysis is extended to show that the benefits of hybrid networks are amplified when multi-hop topologies are supported.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; high definition video; home networks; telecommunication network topology; video streaming; wireless LAN; Wi-Fi; capacity analysis; high definition video streaming device; hybrid devices; hybrid home networks; mobile devices; multihop topology; powerline communications; powerline networks; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Loss measurement; Network topology; Portable computers; Streaming media; Throughput; Topology; Coverage and capacity analysis; Home networking; Hybrid networks; Powerline Communication (PLC); Wi-Fi;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCNC.2014.6785316

Filename

6785316