Abstract
AbstractTelecommunication engineering may substantially benefit from the integration of power line communication (PLC) and visible light communication (VLC) technologies. This integration is enabled firstly by the ubiquitous nature of PLC and VLC infrastructures and secondly by the recent advances made in both technologies, and it will be effective with the knowledge of the cascaded PLC‐VLC channel. This paper reports on the spectral analysis and estimation of the dual channel for hybrid systems involving PLC and VLC technologies. The channels are statistically analysed using the nonparametric windowed Welch method. Experimental results giving varieties of simulated PLC‐VLC channel are presented. They show the influence of the number of taps (PLC side) and the line‐of‐sight and the non–line‐of‐sight gains (VLC side) on the PLC‐VLC frequency response. It also indicates that the cascaded channel is influenced by propagation distance and room area. We also show the influence of PLC and VLC channel parameters on the gain and notches.
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