Powerline communication and applications

POWERLINE COMMUNICATION AND APPLICATIONS(M.Sc. Thesis)Sevilay UYANIKGAZ UNIVERSITYINSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSeptember 2006ABSTRACTAt the end of the 20 th century, ?The wired society? idea to meet theenergy and communication needs over a single powerline, haverecently been come to life again with ?Broadband to the allhouseholds? projects. The opportunity of the use of energy distributionlines that reach to all of the houses and power sockets in all of therooms that will overcome the bottleneck of the local loop, has broughtreviewing the communications technologies to the agenda again. Bymeans of the Powerlines, the cheap and broadband internet at the citycenters and in addition to the broadband internet, the capability of thetelephony services at the rurals that have not other suitable accessservices have motivated both European Union Countries and the USA.In this study, positive and negative sides of the PowerlineCommunications technologies have been examined and audible noiseanalysis have been carried out in the vicinity of used lines.Science Code : 905.1.150Key Words : Broadband over powerlines, Communication overpowerlines, Audible noiseNumber of Pages : 83Advisor : Prof. Dr. M. Sezai D NÇER