Method for transmitting a signal from a transmitter to a receiver in a power line communication network, transmitter, receiver, power line communication modem and power line communication system

A receiver for receiving a signal on a power line network (PLN), said PLN including at least phase, neutral and protective line wires so that said PLN establishes multiple wired transmission paths, said receiver comprising:

• a receiving unit including a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) OFDM demodulators for demodulating signals received via sub-carriers of an OFDM-based signal transmitted via said PLN, said receiving unit configured to receive over said multiple wired transmission paths of said PLN, a training sequence using said set of sub-carriers,
• a channel estimation unit, connected to said receiving unit, said channel estimation unit being configured to determine constellation information and eigenbeamforming encoding information based on a channel estimation for each sub-carrier based on said received training sequence, to determine a tonemap feedback signal, which is descriptive of said constellation information and to determine an eigenbeamforming feedback signal, which is descriptive of said eigenbeamforming encoding information;
• a de-eigenbeamforming unit configured to decode only payload data included in a transmit signal received by the receiver, using the eigenbeamforming encoding information.