IEEE Draft Standard Test Procedures for IEEE Std 1901.3 Standard for Medium Frequency (less than 12 MHz) Power Line Communications with a Hybrid PLC/Radio Frequency Physical Layer (PHY)

This standard specifies test procedures for compliance and interoperability testing of devices implementing the IEEE 1901.3 standard "Standard for Medium Frequency (less than 12 MHz) Power Line Communications (PLC) with a Hybrid PLC/Radio Frequency Physical Layer (PHY)". This standard also describes application scenarios and use cases for IEEE 1901.3 based implementations and associated channel models and performance expectations. This standard provides a collection of examples of real-life implementations allowing enhancement of test procedures with the input from the field.