{"title":"The influence of high pressure sodium lamps on the power line communications channel","authors":"A. Emleh, A. D. Beer, H. Ferreira, A. Vinck","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147609","url":null,"abstract":"The high pressure sodium lamp is a high energy outdoor light source that belongs to the high intensity discharge lamp family. It comes in different shapes and requires a ballast to start it. The high pressure sodium lamp is a source of interference to the power line communications channel as it injects noise when connected to the 220V mains. This paper investigates the influence of the high pressure sodium lamp on the narrowband and broadband power line communications channel. It is shown that the frequency band: 3kHz-150kHz is not highly infected whereas in the band: 150kHz-30MHz, PLC signals compete with Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) levels.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"48 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":"121474762","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}
M. Takanashi, Tomohisa Harada, Atsuhiro Takahashi, Hiroya Tanaka, H. Hayashi, Y. Hattori
{"title":"High-voltage power line communication system for hybrid vehicle","authors":"M. Takanashi, Tomohisa Harada, Atsuhiro Takahashi, Hiroya Tanaka, H. Hayashi, Y. Hattori","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147618","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, hybrid vehicles (HVs) have become widespread. In the current HVs, a high-voltage (200 V) battery supplies power to the Power Control Unit (PCU) for driving a motor, generator and air conditioner compressor. It is expected that such kinds of power electronic devices will increase in number in the future. We previously proposed a power line communication (PLC) that uses a high-voltage power line. In this paper, we present the development of a high-voltage PLC system that can simultaneously control multiple power electronic devices in real time and demonstrate the system operation. First, in a system of a commercially available HV, the results of transmission characteristics and electromagnetic noise characteristics that are superimposed on the high-voltage power line are shown. Then the bit error rate (BER) performance under the above noise environment is clarified by computer simulations. Finally, we construct a prototype of the high-voltage PLC system and demonstrate that the system can simultaneously control the rotational speed of two motors.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"32 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":"126953306","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}
Sean Jordaan, P. V. Rensburg, A. D. Beer, H. Ferreira, A. Vinck
{"title":"A preliminary investigation of the UHF properties of LV cable for WiFi over power line communications","authors":"Sean Jordaan, P. V. Rensburg, A. D. Beer, H. Ferreira, A. Vinck","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147586","url":null,"abstract":"In pursuit of a wireless (contactless) power line communications (W-PLC) system for low voltage (LV) power distribution networks, a commonly utilized bundled low voltage electrical cable called Cabtyre, was energized with a range of frequencies up to 3 GHz. The intention was to characterize the cable from a radio frequency radiation perspective for the utilization of standard low voltage distribution cables as antennas in ultra high frequency (UHF) PLC systems. The range of test frequencies extends 550 MHz beyond the present IEEE 802.11g protocol which has a centre frequency of 2.45 GHz and a 80 MHz total bandwidth. The applied tests therefore allow adequately for the maximum bandwidth required with 40 MHz modulation on either side of the 2.45 GHz centre frequency, [1].","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131518430","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":"The influence of transmission power and frequency bandwidth on in-home cooperative power line communication","authors":"M. S. P. Facina, Moises Vidal Ribeiro","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147621","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims to analyze the influence of transmission power and frequency bandwidth on in-home cooperative power line communication (PLC) based on channel estimates provided by a measurement campaign. We investigate in-home PLC channels based on cooperation from a single relay model perspective in which the relay node is located in the middle between source and destination nodes by considering closed-form expressions of the maximum data rate of hermitian symmetric orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme. The analysis is carried out over the amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) protocols, together with the equal gain combining (EGC), selecting combining (SC) and maximal ratio combining (MRC) techniques. Numerical results show that an increase in frequency bandwidth and/or a decrease in transmission power introduce notable data-rate gains compared to direct link.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117305509","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":"On modeling the sporadic impulsive noise rate within in-home power line networks","authors":"S. D'Alessandro, Marco De Piante, A. Tonello","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147606","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes a methodology to model the impulse rate of sporadic impulsive noise, namely the impulsive noise that is generated by the transients during the on/off switching of electrical appliances. In particular, it is proposed to exploit the publicly available datasets of power consumption measurements campaigns to derive the instants when a switching on/off event occurs. The statistics of the impulse rate is derived considering the data gathered during a six-month measurement in one of the houses of the GREEND dataset. Furthermore, to define the set of appliances that generate sporadic impulsive noise within the considered house, a noise measurement campaign at the source the corresponding analysis was carried out.","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":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128505068","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}
A. Kabore, V. Meghdadi, J. Cances, P. Gaborit, O. Ruatta
{"title":"Performance of Gabidulin codes for narrowband PLC smart grid networks","authors":"A. Kabore, V. Meghdadi, J. Cances, P. Gaborit, O. Ruatta","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147625","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the Power Line Communications (PLC) and tackles the problem of criss-cross noise. In the literature, it is proposed to use Reed-Solomon code concatenated with convolutional code associated with an interleaver. For instance in the context of smart grid, some standards like G3 and IEEE 1901.2 use this scheme. However, the narrowband interference and impulsive noise, which are typical in the PLC, make these schemes inefficient. In this paper we propose to replace the Reed-Solomon code by a kind of rank metric code (Gabidulin code) that can correct a whole line or row of a code word, which is arranged in a matrix. Using OFDM modulation, the columns of code matrix contain the OFDM symbols. We show by simulation that the proposed system outperforms the traditional scheme where the PLC channel is subjected to both impulsive noise and narrowband interference.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"2 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113939158","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":"HomePlug green PHY for the LVDC PLC concept: Applicability study","authors":"A. Pinomaa, J. Ahola, A. Kosonen, P. Nuutinen","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147615","url":null,"abstract":"It has been shown that high-frequency (HF) band power line communication (PLC), that is, the HomePlug 1.0 specification, is feasible for a low-voltage direct current (LVDC) smart grid (SG) system, where power electronics and low-voltage DC are applied to the electricity distribution. In this paper, the applicability of the latest HomePlug specification, Green PHY (GP), is studied within the LVDC PLC concept. Channel characteristics between 2-30 MHz in the HomePlug GP frequency band and noise in the channel from the terminals of the PLC couplers are measured. Furthermore, data transmission tests with HomePlug GP compliant modems are carried out in the LVDC laboratory setup and on the LVDC research site.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116849316","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":"The impact of PLC-to-DSL interference on VDSL2, Vectored VDSL2, and G.fast","authors":"K. Kerpez, Stefano Galli, H. Mariotte, F. Moulin","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147607","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution presents an analysis of the impact of PLC-to-DSL interference on three wideband DSL technologies: VDSL2, Vectored VDSL2 (V-VDSL2), and G.fast. The impact was assessed via computer simulation, but measured loop responses and measured FEXT were also used together with a large set of PLC interference measurements collected from a large number of residential inside wires. The impact of PLC-to-DSL interference on the achievable data rate is assessed at various loop lengths. We have found that the impact of PLC interference on DSL is small on short loops but it grows quickly as loop length increases. We have also confirmed that the use of vectoring greatly increases the sensitivity to PLC interference of DSL technologies, as vectoring removes the time-invariant “blanket” of crosstalk and leaves DSL exposed to PLC interference as well as to other alien noise.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131433870","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 novel weight reset strategy for the LMS algorithm subject to abrupt channel variations","authors":"Carlo Tripodi, G. Ferrari, R. Pighi, R. Raheli","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147602","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss a novel strategy to reset the weight vector of the Least Mean Square (LMS) adaptive algorithm when abrupt channel variations occur. Such variations may be caused by line impedance sudden changes, typically due to switching events, and may significantly impact the performance of the LMS algorithms used for adaptive echo cancellation and equalization. Specifically, they may trigger a convergence transient period, whose duration depends on the distance between the current weight vector and the final one. In previous work, a weight reset strategy based on sign inversion was demonstrated in the context of echo cancellation for a power line modem. In this paper, we extend this work by investigating weight reset strategies based on a group of reinitialization vectors, some of which will be likely close to the final LMS optimal weights. The results show that it may indeed be possible to promptly detect abrupt channel variations and properly reset the LMS weights in order to shorten the induced transient period.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133044391","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 new digital front end structure for cognitive PLC systems","authors":"Hongjian Gao, G. Bumiller, Weilin Liu, Lijianqi","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147623","url":null,"abstract":"Power line channel is hostile for communication. One concept we proposed for reliable communication in power line is to adjust the working band according to different channel conditions. In this paper, a new digital front end (DFE) structure, which combines equivalent complex baseband (ECB) structure and Nyquist windowing at both transmitter and receiver, is proposed to support this concept. By configuring parameters of ECB, it supports flexibly band selection. Besides, out-of-band interference is able to be attenuated to a large extent due to the cascaded low-pass filters in the ECB at receiver. Therefore, it is possible to apply much more simplified analogue front end. The Nyquist windowing at receiver makes side-lobe of narrowband disturbance fall down quickly and concentrates its energy on fewer subcarriers, which benefits the narrowband interference detection. Finally, system performance with the new DFE structure in the presence of in-band and out-of-band disturbance is simulated and compared with classic DFE and equivalent complex baseband (ECB)-based DFE.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123214927","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}