{"title":"Modeling approach of broadband in-home PLC in network simulator 3","authors":"I. Tsokalo, R. Lehnert","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147599","url":null,"abstract":"A modeling of communication networks is often done in hierarchical way. So, in PLC there are multiple models of channel, physical, datalink and other layers, which are realized separately in multiple programming environments. Nevertheless it is often advantages to do a cross-layer optimization of communication protocols. For this purpose multiple separate models have to be unified in one simulation environment. This paper describes a modeling approach of the PLC channel, the topology generator, the physical and datalink layer in ns-3 together. With this approach the authors show that Linear-Periodic Time-Variant (LPTV) property of the PLC channel is useful to be considered for the design of MAC scheduler. The developed simulator is set up for in-home PLC environment. It means that noise, impedance models and topology generator are described as stochastic models, which base on statistical measurement results in this environment.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"82 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":"129901981","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":"Is resistive coupling feasible for the reception of power-line communications data?","authors":"Zwelibanzi W. Swana, P. V. Rensburg, H. Ferreira","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147588","url":null,"abstract":"Historically, two classes of coupling circuits have been used for power-line communications (PLC), being capacitive couplers and inductive couplers. In this paper, resistive coupling as a radical and novel approach is investigated specifically for the reception of PLC data. The main goal of this new approach, is to reduce costs associated with traditional capacitive and inductive couplers, seeing that resistors are the cheapest electronic components available. Only two resistors are required to implement a voltage-divider setup which reduces the harmful ac power waveform to a safe level, after which (cheaper) low-spec components can be used to filter and process the scaled-down, sampled waveform. Simulation results as well as off-line and live experimental results are shown to confirm that the superimposed PLC signal can be extracted successfully with resistive PLC coupling.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"15 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":"128152162","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}
R. Vuohtoniemi, J. Vartiainen, Juha-Pekka Mäkelä, J. Iinatti
{"title":"Detection of wireless signals in broadband cognitive PLC using the modified 2-D LAD ACC algorithm","authors":"R. Vuohtoniemi, J. Vartiainen, Juha-Pekka Mäkelä, J. Iinatti","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147620","url":null,"abstract":"There is a need to fulfill the growing capacity requirements of power line communication (PLC). One way to achieve higher data rates in PLC networks is to operate at higher frequencies and increase the used bandwidth. In the future, the increased PLC frequency range can overlap with several wireless communications systems resulting in interference for these transmissions and vice versa. Commonly used static notching results in inefficient spectrum utilization as in a given place and at a given time only a part of the frequency range may be occupied by other wireless systems. Some wireless signals like FM signals are very closely spaced. In practice it is impossible to utilize these narrowband unoccupied frequency bands. In this case we can cluster closely spaced signals. Guard bands around detected wireless signals must also be taken into account before defining usable frequency bands for PLC. In this paper, we use the 2-D LAD ACC algorithm to detect and cluster interfering signals. We also further develop the algorithm so that after clustering guard bands are added and reclustering, if necessary, is executed. The performance of this modified 2-D LAD ACC algorithm is analyzed using calculations and spectrum analyzer measurement results obtained from in-office PLC network in the frequency range 80-200 MHz. The results verify that the proposed method performs well by detecting and clustering continuous and non-continuous wireless signals and providing means for clever spectrum utilization in PLC-network.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"1 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":"130698751","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":"Interference alignment for MIMO power line communications","authors":"M. J. Rahman, L. Lampe","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147592","url":null,"abstract":"Interference alignment (IA) is a multiplexing gain optimal linear precoding strategy that has been extensively studied in the context of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless interference networks. In this paper, we study the applicability of IA for MIMO power line communication (PLC) in interference scenarios. In particular, we consider different MIMO PLC networks to study the feasibility of IA as well as evaluate the performance in terms of sum-rate for these setups. To this end, we exploit minimum interference leakage (Min-IL) and maximum signal to interference plus noise ratio (Max-SINR) algorithms that were earlier proposed for IA in the context of MIMO wireless interference networks. Our results show that IA can be equally applicable to the MIMO PLC in interference scenarios as well as the sum-rate of the PLC networks can be significantly improved through the exploitation of Max-SINR algorithm. It is found that at high signal to noise ratio (SNR) the performance gain in terms of sum-rate with IA over orthogonal transmission techniques is around 30% for a 3-user 2 × 2 MIMO PLC network.","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":"121884716","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":"Broadband MIMO powerline channel emulator verification and testing results","authors":"N. Weling, Andreas Engelen, Stephan Thiel","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147590","url":null,"abstract":"We have designed an FPGA based multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) power line communications (PLC) Channel Emulator in our research lab over the last years. This paper will demonstrate verification and testing results achieved with the emulator. It also presents comparisons between PLC modem performance results at typical channels within the field and their corresponding emulated performances. Furthermore, some steps that were required to optimize the emulation results will be exposed in this paper. Finally, its shown that significant testing of broadband powerline modems is a quite feasible concern.","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":"122834529","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":"Design tradeoffs in joint powerline and wireless transmission for smart grid communications","authors":"Ghadi Sebaali, B. Evans","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147594","url":null,"abstract":"Providing reliable smart grid communication from customers to the local utility faces significant challenges due to noise, interference, frequency selectivity, path loss and fading. For transmission over narrowband powerline channels (3-500 kHz) and unlicensed wireless channels (902-928 MHz), this paper reviews previous approaches for (a) channel modeling and estimation and (b) noise/interference modeling and mitigation. Based on these approaches, the paper reviews methods for joint transmission over the powerline and wireless channels to improve reliability further. The key contribution of this paper is to explore design tradeoffs in communication performance vs. implementation complexity for joint transmission.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"16 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":"121656584","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":"Wake-up transceiver protocol for power line communications","authors":"Matthias Kuba","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147601","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a wake-up transceiver system based on narrowband power line communications (NB-PLC). An energy-pattern based sequence detection algorithm is proposed for the recognition of a wake-up sequence by the receiver. The method is characterized by low computational complexity and does not require channel parameter estimation and adaption. Furthermore, a blind packet repetition technique is introduced that accomplishes periodic impulsive noise avoidance. A realistic and straightforward narrowband power line channel model is presented and the proposed wake-up protocol is verified against it in terms of Monte-Carlo simulations. It is demonstrated, that the method leads to significant improvements compared to state of the art low-complexity PLC systems in typical NB-PLC channels.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"89 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":"115661475","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":"Guard interval adaptation for in-home power line communication","authors":"T. Vo, K. Amis, T. Chonavel, P. Siohan","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147622","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to analyze the choice of the guard interval (GI) length in PLC systems to optimize the achievable throughput under power and symbol error-rate (SER) constraints. In general, the GI length is chosen so that there is no interference, i.e. the GI length is greater than or equal to the channel impulse response length. However, many previous works have shown that in PLC systems, this GI choice is inefficient in terms of achievable throughput. Indeed, shorter GI evidently results in inter-symbol interference (ISI) and inter-carrier interference (ICI), but the gain offered by shortened GI may exceed the loss caused by interference. In this paper, we propose a simple solution for the GI length adaptation in PLC systems to optimize the achievable throughput.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"5 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":"117313479","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":"Powerline-channel adopted layer-design and link-layer for reliable data transmission","authors":"G. Bumiller","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147624","url":null,"abstract":"Narrow Band PLC uses often MAC-protocol stacks designed for wireless systems like IEEE 802.15.4 (used by Prime, PLC-G3 and IEEE 1901.2). Due to the different behavior of the power line channel mainly OFDM based PHY-Layers, significant modulations and decoding times are used. The resulting computation delay is equivalent to 3-5 OFDM symbol times, which has an equivalent effect on the system as a propagation delay. The short ACKs for confirmation are full packages with several OFDM-symbols. The impulsive noise on the channel requires certain packet duration to reach sufficient reliability. Therefore a stop and wait protocol with immediate acknowledgement of each packet cannot reach an efficient channel usage. Additionally it is necessary for reliable PLC systems to accept links with PER (packet error rates) of 20% and more. The theoretical maximum throughput of a channel with PER of 20 % is still 80%. Very often narrowband PLC standardized protocols fail under this condition. This paper presents an adopted Layer-Design to combine all data flows to a node in a single stream and organize a reliable data transmission even for channel with PER of 90% and more. A pipeline structure allows an efficient medium usage and realizes a selective repeat approach. The confirmation is transferred piggy back in packages in opposite direction. Even for the retransmission of a packet the transmission mode and the route can be changed. This approach allows fast reactions on changed network situations without interruption of any link, which is an important requirement to fulfill reliability and real-time requirements for grid control.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"31 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":"129095482","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":"Software for control and calibration of an inductive shunt on-line impedance analyzer","authors":"Shucheng Zhu, C. Kikkert, N. Ertugrul","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147589","url":null,"abstract":"On-line impedance analysis allows impedances of devices and power lines to be determined for the optimum design of PLC systems. By measuring changes in impedance of devices such as transformers, motors or power lines, impending failures may also be detected. This paper discusses software for the control, signal processing and calibration of the Inductive Shunt On-Line Impedance Analyzer. The paper shows that the resulting combination of hardware and software results in accurate measurements of impedances over a wide frequency and impedance value range. Some on-line and off-line impedance measurements are presented.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"106 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":"132392019","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}