Patent ID: 8879644

Claim:
Method for communication channel coordination between a transmitter and a receiver in a switched power line communication (PLC) network, for transmitting and receiving a plurality of signals over residential electrical cables, said residential electrical cables comprising at least one active wire, one neutral wire and one ground wire, at least two of said wires forming a plurality of wire pairs, said method comprising the procedures of: pre-configuring in the transmitter and the receiver in said switched PLC network one of said plurality of wire pairs as a network default wire pair; for each of a respective one of said plurality of signals, selecting one of said plurality of wire pairs for transmitting said respective one of said plurality of signals; and before transmitting each of said respective one of said plurality of signals, transmitting a respective directive frame by said transmitter, said respective directive frame indicating which one of said plurality of wire pairs said transmitter will transmit a respective one of said plurality of signals over; wherein said directive frame is transmitted over said network default wire pair.