Research Article

An Overview of the HomePlug AV2 Technology

Table 3

Maximum PHY rate computation.

System configuration
(North American tone mask)
Max PHY rate

HomePlug AV (1.8–30 MHz)
(917 carriers, 10 bits/carr, 5.56  s GI)
197 Mbps

IEEE 1901 (1.8–50 MHz)
(1974 carriers, 12 bits/carr, 1.6  s GI)
556 Mbps

HomePlug AV2 SISO (1.8–86.13 MHz)
(3455 carriers, 12 bits/carr, 0.0  s GI)
1012 Mbps

HomePlug AV2 MIMO (1.8–86.13 MHz)
(3455 carriers, 12 bits/carr, 0.0  s GI, 2 streams)
2024 Mbps