Router connected physical media in networking the intelligent home

The performance of the CEBus, a proposed computer network standard for the intelligent home, implemented with power line (PL) and twisted pair (TP) media, interconnected through a router, has been investigated. The delay and throughput characteristics of each of the three priority class of messages, i.e. deferred, standard, and high, have been measured. Overall, the PL-Router-TP network system has behaved well and as expected, however, care must be taken to restrict traffic from the high (TP) to the low (PL) capacity medium to reasonable levels from the point of view of the low capacity medium