Patent ID: 11916814
Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A node device intended to be used in a power line communication network, the node device being configured so as to communicate in a plurality of separate frequency bands with a second node device of said network and so as to apply a transmission mode for transmitting by referring to a single extended frequency band comprising at least two frequency bands from among said plurality of separate frequency bands, each separate frequency band comprising a plurality of subcarriers,
the node device comprising electronic circuitry configured so as to:
distribute data to be transmitted in said single extended frequency band into a plurality of groups of data via an interleaving operation, each group being assigned to just one of said at least two separate frequency bands, and data in each of the groups being assigned to each of the subcarriers of the frequency band to which the group is assigned,
transmit the data in each of the plurality of groups of data in the separate frequency band to which the group is assigned such that the data transmission is carried out jointly on all of the subcarriers of the at least two frequency bands.