{"title":"Analysis tool for temporal evolution of frame error rate performance in narrowband PLC","authors":"A. V. Laere, S. Bette, V. Moeyaert","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147626","url":null,"abstract":"G3-PLC is a transmission system using the power line channel [1]. This technology, as others using the power lines as the communication medium, is very interesting for power utilities as operators can use their own infrastructure for communication purposes. Nevertheless, as power lines were not initially designed to carry data, the performance of a communication may vary depending on many parameters (load, weather conditions, season, etc.). To be able to use the power line medium, tools allowing a power utility to determine the performance of a communication using a specific link must be developed. In this paper, an analysis tool capable of monitoring the performance indicators of a G3-PLC transmission throughout the communication will be presented. The tool was used in a field test in Mons, Belgium, to obtain real-cases results. The analysis method applied to the results is presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128350984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A method for narrowband interference mitigation in OFDM by minimizing spectral leakage","authors":"T. Pande, I. Kim, A. Batra","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147583","url":null,"abstract":"Current generation narrowband power-line communication systems are OFDM based. They are especially susceptible to narrowband interference (NBI) which is generated by switching power supplies and legacy communication systems. In this paper we propose a novel method for mitigating the effect of NBI. The method exploits a well-known characteristic of NBI spectral leakage in that it is frequency dependent. The method involves intentionally introducing inter-carrier interference at the receiver in a controlled manner in order to mitigate the NBI effect with low computational complexity. A simple NBI frequency estimator is also proposed. The combined receiver solution is shown to be within 0.5 dB of the AWGN performance bound for the current G3-FCC standard in the presence of a single NBI.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133701800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Channel characterization for underwater broadband PLC sensor networks","authors":"Vladimir Burstein, W. Henkel","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147608","url":null,"abstract":"For the tasks of navigation and obstacle detection, underwater and surface vehicles mostly rely on sonar, which uses a number of spatially distributed acoustic sensors. In this paper we explore the characteristics of linear bus structures, which is the natural choice for such an underwater sensor network, combining both power and data transmission capabilities, using only two wires. The measurement and modelling results of cables and a bus structure under changing pressure conditions are introduced. These results are essential for the development of a new broadband power line communication (PLC) system.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124963789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moises Vidal Ribeiro, F. P. V. Campos, G. R. Colen, Hugo Schettino, Diogo Fernandes, L. Sirimarco, Victor Fernandes, Antonio A. M. Picorone
{"title":"A novel power line communication system for outdoor electric power grids","authors":"Moises Vidal Ribeiro, F. P. V. Campos, G. R. Colen, Hugo Schettino, Diogo Fernandes, L. Sirimarco, Victor Fernandes, Antonio A. M. Picorone","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147619","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines a novel power line communication (PLC) system that was specified, designed, and prototyped to address the features of low-voltage and outdoor Brazilian electric power grids when the frequency band between 1.7 and 50 MHz, which complies with the Brazilian regulation for broadband PLC, is considered. The proposed PLC system is constituted by a PLC base station and several PLC modems. Also, it makes use of the clustered orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme to divide the total frequency bandwidth into several subchannels (clusters). As a result, the maximum throughput achieved by a PLC modem is a fraction of the maximum throughput that a PLC base station can offer and, as a consequence, the computational complexity as well as hardware resource utilization demanded by a PLC modem is considerably reduced in relation to the PLC base station. Data-rate as high as 24 Mbps can be attained in each subchannel at the application level, finally, but not the least, this PLC system can be useful for smart grid communication and digital inclusion.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122777053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mostafa Sayed, I. Kim, T. Pande, A. Batra, N. Al-Dhahir
{"title":"Proposed frame and preamble structure for MIMO narrowband power line communications","authors":"Mostafa Sayed, I. Kim, T. Pande, A. Batra, N. Al-Dhahir","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147591","url":null,"abstract":"Narrowband power line communications (NB-PLC) operating in the 3-500 kHz frequency band is proposed as a solution to support the emerging Smart Grid applications that aim to optimize the efficiency and reliability of the power grids. PLC is attractive for Smart Grid communications as it can be deployed over the existing power grids without any additional infrastructure. However, PLC suffers from impulsive noise and frequency-selective channels which degrade the system's reliability and data rate. Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) PLC is a promising technology to increase the data rate and provide robustness against the PLC interference. In this paper, we consider the design of a MIMO frame and preamble structure that can be efficiently used to perform initial receiver synchronization while ensuring backward compatibility with current NB-PLC standards.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123384838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eduardo Alonso, J. Matanza, C. Rodríguez-Morcillo, S. Alexandres
{"title":"Performance evaluation of AMR simultaneous polling strategies in a PRIME PLC network","authors":"Eduardo Alonso, J. Matanza, C. Rodríguez-Morcillo, S. Alexandres","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147597","url":null,"abstract":"PLC is gaining prominence as a solution for Smart Grid developments. However, several aspects still require further research and analysis. Among the different solutions, PRIME (PoweRline Intelligent Metering Evolution) standard is one of the most popular and extended implementations. This paper analyses the performance impact caused by the polling strategy utilized in an auto meter reading (AMR) process for a PRIME PLC network. In particular, the number of connections that the master node is able to manage simultaneously is studied. The time required to read all the meters in the network is utilized as performance metric. In order to replicate the performance of a PRIME's network, a co-simulation framework that combines Matlab and OMNeT++ has been used. This architecture allows to take into account both physical phenomena and control and application message management. Simulated topologies represent a general European low-voltage network. Results highlight the importance of selecting an adequate number of simultaneous connections in order to optimize the use of the channel.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"7 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116795838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An experimentally validated PRIME subnetwork simulation model for utility applications","authors":"J. Larrañaga, J. Legarda, Iker Urrutia, A. Sendin","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147596","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a PRIME subnetwork simulation model based on OMNeT++ that reproduces the behaviour of real networks. The developed simulation model uses the most common logical topology of a selected real network provided by a previous monitoring process. Thanks to the developed simulation model, different algorithms and utility applications can be tested in the simulation environment without having to perform lengthy field tests. The model has been validated with the firmware upgrade application comparing the total time involved in such operation both in the simulation and in the real environment. Results show that, according to the two-sample t-test, the mean time to perform the firmware upgrade of the network nodes is equal in both environments.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115278597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ju Jin, Hui-Myoung Oh, Sungsoo Choi, Jongkwan Seo, Jae-Jo Lee
{"title":"Performance of polar codes with successive cancellation decoding over PLC channels","authors":"Ju Jin, Hui-Myoung Oh, Sungsoo Choi, Jongkwan Seo, Jae-Jo Lee","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147584","url":null,"abstract":"Polar codes are the first proven capacity achieving codes for a wide array of channels with low complexity. It is considered a next generation candidate for error-correcting codes (ECC) with turbo codes and low-density parity check (LDPC) codes. The aim of this paper is to analyze the bit error rate (BER) performance of polar codes with successive cancellation (SC) decoding over power line communication (PLC) channels. First, the performance of polar codes in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and impulsive noise channels will be shown. In addition, a signal level limiter is used to mitigate the degradation of the performance over the impulse noise channels. Thereafter, the performance over real PLC channels is investigated. Simulation results show that polar codes are applicable to PLC channels with lower complexity than a turbo or a LDPC code.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129106511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topology reconstruction for power line network based on Bayesian compressed sensing","authors":"Xu-Long Ma, Fang Yang, Wenbo Ding, Jian Song","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147600","url":null,"abstract":"Power line communication (PLC) is playing a more and more important role in the smart grid (SG). In this paper, in addition to conveying information, sensing topology of the network based on PLC is proposed to expand the area of PLC applications, which further improves the smart property of the grid. By assuming each endpoint of the grid is equipped with a PLC device, we model the grid as an edge-node network with tree structure. Then, considering the parametric sparsity of the PLC channel, we propose a method to estimate the distances between nodes using Bayesian compressed sensing (CS). Finally, we exploit the proposed dynamic reconstruction algorithm to reacquire the topology of the whole network. Numerical simulation results demonstrate that the proposed Bayesian CS scheme can accurately achieve the distances between nodes especially with fewer number of pilots, while the dynamic reconstruction algorithm is more effective and has less complexity than the traditional method.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"647 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133101370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Oliveira, C. Zeller, S. L. Netto, Moises Vidal Ribeiro
{"title":"Statistical modeling of the average channel gain and delay spread in in-home PLC channels","authors":"T. Oliveira, C. Zeller, S. L. Netto, Moises Vidal Ribeiro","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147611","url":null,"abstract":"This work describes a complete statistical modeling of the average channel gain in dB (ACGdB) and the root mean squared delay spread (RMS-DS) for power line communication (PLC) systems. The PLC channel features are estimated from 148,037 channel frequency responses measured in 7 typical different places in an urban area in Brazil. Two frequency bands are considered: from 1.7 up to 30 MHz and from 1.7 up to 100 MHz. The resulting datasets for ACGdB and RMS-DS were fitted to well known continuous distributions, including symmetric (Logistic and Normal) and asymmetric (Exponential, Gamma, Inverse Gaussian, Loglogistic, Lognormal, Nakagami, Rayleigh, Rician, Skew-normal, t-Student and Weibull) cases. The best distribution fitted to the considered dataset is indicated by the log-likelihood value and three distinct information criteria. The achieved results revealed that the ACGdB is better modeled by the Skew-normal and the Nakagami distributions for the frequency bands from 1.7 up to 30 MHz and 100 MHz, respectively, whereas the RMS-DS is little bit better modeled by the Gamma distribution, then by the Lognormal distribution, in both frequency bands considered.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127446515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}