Abstract: Within a domain of a master device, devices that share a power line as a communications medium monitor signal detection windows to sense network status. The devices transmit sensed network status to the master device. The master device allocates channel resources based on the network statuses communicated by the devices within the domain.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to reduce the level of quantification noise when transmission power varies with frequency. Power variation is carried out in the analog domain by filtering a frequency band and attenuating a complementary band in two signal analog-processing paths. More precisely, the method for reducing the quantification noise for transmitting a multi-carrier signal comprises an IFFT conversion step, a digital-to-analog conversion step and an analog-processing step of the signal frequencies on a band having a maximal frequency. Moreover, the analog processing step includes at least two processing paths in parallel to the analog signal, in which: for at least one first path, the signal is filtered so as to retain only the frequencies of a low-frequency band and, in parallel in at least one second path, the signal is subjected to gain, amplification or gain attenuation and, in a final step, the signals from the paths are summed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data over a carrier current using a frequency band. According to said method: the frequency band is divided into N sub-bands, N being a whole number higher than, or equal to, two; an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technique is carried out on each of said sub-bands; and calculations are carried out based on each sub-band. The inventive method is characterised in that the calculations based on each sub-band are independent from the calculations based on the other sub-bands, and said sub-bands are dynamically activated and allocated. The invention also relates to modulation and demodulation devices for carrying out said method.

Abstract: The invention relates in particular to a method for transmitting an analogue signal in a predetermined frequency band on the basis of an initial digital signal sampled at a sampling frequency, said method comprising in particular a step of modifying the initial analogue signal so as to generate a modified analogue signal having a modified spectrum in said predetermined frequency band. According to the invention, the modifying step comprises a filtering step consisting in selecting said predetermined frequency band from said plurality of mirror frequency bands.