Coverage and capacity analysis of hybrid home networks

A hybrid home network is a network consisting of hybrid devices capable of both Wi-Fi and powerline communications. We provide a comparison of coverage and capacity between hybrid, standalone Wi-Fi, and standalone powerline networks. We demonstrate that hybrid networks improve both the coverage and the capacity of a home network to simultaneously support high definition video streaming and mobile devices. The analysis is extended to show that the benefits of hybrid networks are amplified when multi-hop topologies are supported.