Selected R&D Accomplishments

 

 

2007-2006 White Light Emitting Diodes for Home Networking

  •     Broadband Room Service by Light

    Encoded light transmissions can provide the wireless devices in a room with multimedia Web services such as

    videoconferencing, movies on demand and more By: Mohsen Kavehrad

     

    S C I E N T I F I C   A M E R I C A N    JOURNAL,   July 2007

     

·         M. Kavehrad, P. Amirshahi, “Hybrid MV-LV Power Lines and White Light Emitting Diodes for Triple-Play Broadband Access Communications,” IEC comprehensive report on; Achieving the Triple Play: Technologies and Business Models for Success, ISBN: 978-1-931695-37-4, December 2005. (.PDF)

·         P. Amirshahi and M. Kavehrad, “Transmission Channel Model and Capacity of Overhead Multi-conductor Medium-Voltage Power-lines for Broadband Communications,” IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2005. (.PDF)

·        P. Amirshahi and M. Kavehrad, “Medium Voltage Overhead Power-line Broadband Communications; Transmission Capacity and Electromagnetic Interference,” Proceedings of ISPLC 2005, Vancouver, Canada, April 2005.

 

·         Penn-State Research News: Optical Wireless And Broadband Over Power Lines

Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, at 5 p.m. EST

University Park, Pa. --- Penn State engineers have shown that a white-LED system for lighting and high data-rate indoor wireless communications, coupled with broadband over either medium- or low-voltage power line grids (BPL), can offer transmission capacities that exceed DSL or cable and are more secure than RF.

 

Ø        Eurek-Alert: Optical Wireless……..

Ø       Physic-Org.: Optical wireless and broadband over power lines………….

Ø       Technology News Daily: Optical Wireless………..

Ø       Science Daily: Optical Wireless And Broadband Over Power………

Ø        CNN_Magazine _Com:  Wi-Fi alternative

Ø       Innovations-report: Optical wireless………….

Ø        Industry News - The IEE: LED lighting could deliver wireless broadband, researchers claim

Ø        The SPIE OE magazine: White LEDs offer wi-fi alternative

Ø       LASER Focus-Japan: With white LED high-speed optical wireless communication

Ø       Global sources: Optical Wireless and Broadband

Ø        Inovacao Tecnologica;  Comunicação óptica sem fios e banda larga

Ø        BrightSurf.com: White LED and BPL

Ø        PiraNet: US university offers wireless broadband via LEDs

Ø        LUPA: Rychlá a bezpečná alternativa WiFi

Ø        TelecomDirect: Researchers Envision an LED-Powered Wireless Network

Ø        Automatyka: Światło białych diod LED nowym medium transmisyjnym

Ø        DesignLine: Broadband over power lines and Optical wireless speeds past DSL

Ø        Pacto4: Comunicação óptica

Ø        Solociencia: Alternativas al wi-fi convencional

Ø        Science Blog: Optical wireless and broadband over power lines

Ø        Yahoo Brasil: Banda larga viajando na luz de LEDs brancos

Ø        Philadelphia Inquirer: Lighting up wireless Internet links

 

2005 Broadband Transmission over Medium Voltage Powerlines

 

·        P. Amirshahi and M. Kavehrad, “High-Frequency Characteristics of Overhead Multi-conductor Power Lines for Broadband Communications,”

      IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 7, July 2006.

 

·        P. Amirshahi and M. Kavehrad, “Medium Voltage Overhead Power-line Broadband Communications; Transmission

        Capacity and Electromagnetic Interference,” Proceedings of ISPLC 2005, Vancouver, Canada, April 2005.

 

·        P. Amirshahi and M. Kavehrad, “Transmission Channel Model and Capacity of Overhead Multi-conductor Medium-Voltage

        Power-lines for Broadband Communications,” IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas,

        January 2005.

 

*   Penn-State Research News: Power Line Data Transmission Capacity: Bigger Than DSL Or Cable

 

January 5, 2005

 

University Park, Pa. -- Penn State engineers have developed a new model for high-speed broadband transmissions over U.S. overhead electric

Power-lines and estimate that, at full data rate handling capacity, the lines can provide bit rates that far exceed DSL or cable over similar spans.

 

*  WPSX-TV Pennsylvania... Inside Out, a TV interview: High-voltage electrical power lines could be used for communications, like broadband Internet

 

*  Scientific American: Broadband to the people

*  The Energy Daily: Repeaters are key –Properly “tuned” power line offers broadest broadband

*  BPL Today: Penn-State finds gigabit in US grid

*  FCC Chairman Powell kicks off his new regular AO blog: Michael Powell Joins the Blogosphere

*  Transmission & Distribution: Researchers…………..

*  Electricity Forum: Researchers see…………

*  EurekAlert: Power line data transmission capacity: Bigger than DSL or cable

*  PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA: Power line data transmission capacity: Bigger than DSL or cable

*  Reuters – USA: Researchers See Gigabit Data Over Power Lines

*  Betterhumans: Power Line Internet Could Crush Cable, DSL

*  Innovation report - Germany: Power line data transmission capacity: Bigger than DSL or cable

*  Science Blog: Power line data transmission capacity Bigger than DSL or cable  Science Blog

*  CNN_Magazine: Internet Over Power Lines

*  ABS CBN News, Philippines:  Researchers see gigabit data over power lines

*  Graphic Exchange News, Canada: Future gigabyte per second Internet speed through power lines

*  Reuters – France:  Des chercheurs prévoient du très haut débit sur ligne électrique

*  Science Daily: Power Line Data Transmission Capacity: Bigger Than DSL Or Cable

*  The Malaysia Star, Malaysia: Forget broadband, look to your power lines

*  ITWeb, South Africa: Researchers see gigabit data over power lines

*  Azom.com: New Model for Super-Speed Broadband Transmissions Over U.S. Power Llines

*  l'XPditif... :  Très haut débit sur ligne électrique ...

*  EchosDuNet: Du Tres Haut……………

*  Internetworld: Forskare lovar hundratals Mbit/s via elnätet

*  IT-VIIKKO: Tutkijat pitävät gigabitin nopeutta mahdollisena sähkölinjoilla

*  Daily Science News: Power Line……….

*  Yahoo News- Singapore: Researchers see………….

*  Top Chinese News: 1G

*  DigiToday: Tutkijat pitävät gigabitin

*  Net-Economy: Les Etats-Unis testent l’accès par CPL à 1 Gbit/s

*  NTT Communications: 1G

*  China Telecomm.: 1G

*  Virtual World News: Power Line Internet Could Crush Cable, DSL

*  Patriot News: Electric lines could deliver Internet

*  Híradó: Dr. Mohsen Kavehrad, és WL Weiss professzorok vezetik

*  Onet.pl: Wiadomości - Jednogigabitowy Internet "z gniazdka"

*  Transindex: tech -- Egy gigabit áramhálózaton

*  IL SOLE 24 ORE: Comunicazioni ottiche superano anche la nebbia