Research Article

Review and Progress towards the Capacity Boost of Overhead and Underground Medium-Voltage and Low-Voltage Broadband over Power Lines Networks: Cooperative Communications through Two- and Three-Hop Repeater Systems

Figure 5

Overall capacity of distribution MV/BPL topologies with two-hop repeater systems for the five indicative topologies versus repeater distance from point A—see Figure 2—when different coupling schemes are applied.
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(a)   Overhead/WtG1
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(b) Overhead/
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(c) Underground/StP1
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(d) Underground/