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Field Trial of Digital Video Transmission over Medium-Voltage Powerline with Time-Domain Synchronous Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Technology Jian Song, Changyong Pan, Qing Wu, and Zhixing Yang Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Lab of Information Science and Technolgy Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 100084 Haitao Liu, Bingzhen Zhao, and Xiao Li Beijing ECOM Communications Technology Co., Ltd., Fu Wai Avenue, Xi Cheng District, Beijing, China, 100037 Abstract: Using Digital Multimedia Broadcast-Terrestrial (DMB-T) system from Tsinghua University, two-way (frequency division duplex) digital video transmission over medium-voltage power cables of up to 700m-long was successfully demonstrated. The preliminary experiments validate the feasibility of using Time-Domain Synchronous Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) technology, a core technology in DMB-T and being adopted in Chinese Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Standard, for powerline communication. TDS-OFDM offers higher spectrum efficiency as known pseudo random sequence is used as the guard interval (or frame header) and also serves the purpose of synchronization and channel estimation avoiding the overhead to put either training symbols or pilots in OFDM symbol. Key words: Powerline Communication (PLC), Time-Domain Synchronous Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (TDS-OFDM), Digital Multimedia Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DMB-T) I. Introduction Powerline communication (PLC) uses the existing electrical power grid to provide various services to costumers. As the communication signal (with working frequency much higher than 50/60 Hz) can simply be carried by the power cable, there is no need to build up new networks and hence, saves not only investment but also time to economically provide various services to customers who receive service from utility company yet not covered by communication networks. Another adv