| Literature (authors, year) | TX power | Channel capacity | Data rate | TX distance | Modulation method |
| Capacitive coupling HBC |
| Zimmerman [17], 1995 | — | 417 kbps | 2.4 kbps | — | OOK | Post et al. [66], 1997 | 20 dBm | 50 kbps | 9.6 kbps | 200 cm | FSK | Matsushita et al. [67], 2000 | — | — | 9.6 kbps | — | FSK | Partridge et al. [68], 2001 | — | — | 38.4 kbps | 200 cm | FSK | Shinagawa et al. [80], 2004 | — | — | 10 Mbps | 150 cm | — | Song et al. [73], 2006 | — | — | 2 Mbps | — | Wideband | Zhu et al. [64], 2009 | −14 dBm | — | 10 Mbps | 15 cm | QPSK | Cho et al. [75], 2009 | −5 dBm | — | 10 Mbps | 120 cm | Wideband | Zhang et al. [62], 2010 | — | — | 0.110 Mbps | 10~150 cm | BPSK | Nie et al. [70], 2012 | −15~5 dBm | — | 5 Mbps | 10~50 cm | OOK | Hyoung et al. [78], 2012 | — | — | 2 Mbps | 170 cm | Wideband | Cho et al. [71], 2014 | 1.4 dBm (or 1.4 mW) | — | 164 kbps~1.313 Mbps | — | BPSK | Cho et al. [72], 2015 | −16.7 dBm (or 21 μW) | — | 100 kbps | — | OOK | Chung et al. [79], 2016 | — | — | 1 Mbps~40 Mbps | — | Wideband |
| Galvanic coupling HBC |
| Handa et al. [38], 1997 | −21 dBm | — | 0.9 kbps | 40 cm | PWM | Hachisuka et al. [40], 2003 | −10 dBm | — | 9.6 kbps | 28 cm | FSK | Wegmueller et al. [43], 2005 | −3 dBm | — | 255 kbps | 10~15 cm | BPSK | Ruiz and Shimamoto [65], 2006 | 15 dBm | — | 2 Mbps | 20 cm | QPSK | Wegmueller [41], 2007 | −6 dBm | 1.23 Mbps | 64 kbps | 10~25 cm | QPSK | Lin et al. [60], 2011 | −30~−4 dBm | — | 2 Mbps | — | OOK | Li et al. [92], 2013 | −5 dBm | — | 200 kbps | 6 cm | QPSK |
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