Multimedia communications over power lines

摘要

A method for communication includes establishing a data link between first and second transceivers (32,34) over an electric power line (24). A sequence of data packets is received for transmission over the data link, the sequence belonging to a session of a connectionless real-time network protocol. Responsive to a first packet in the sequence, a reliable connection channel for the session is established over the data link between the first and second transceivers. The packets in the sequence are transmitted from the first to the second transceiver over the reliable connection channel.