Video streaming performance measureover digital power line / Nur Wahidah Mohamed

Power-line networking is one of the several ways to connect the computers in your home. In-House power-line can be defined as a building equipped with numerous sensors, where (example: heating, air-conditioning, illumination) can be automatically and remotely controlled and supervised. These applications occur within a single building with both ends of the communications link within the same building. The building might be a house, an apartment block or an office building. The path over which the transfer of data occurs within these buildings is relatively short - typically it is less than 100 m between devices. This has been possible due to the relatively low power levels necessary to communicate over the comparatively short (cabling) distances within a building. When the HomePlug AV specification is ratified, HomePlug will deliver a 200megabits-per-second data rate, with expected throughput just shy of 100 mbps, which makes it ideal to transmit multiple streams of video throughout the home. The purposes for this project is to introduce and implement digital power line communication network as an alternative way in LAN communication, to analyze video streaming in Direct LAN using power line and to measure the performance of video streaming over digital power line based on second objective.