{"title":"Power line communication technology in industrial networks","authors":"S. C. Pereira, Alexandre S. Caporali, I. Casella","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147617","url":null,"abstract":"The PLC technology could be an additional alternative on the market for data transmission in industrial applications, like networks used to controlling machines and collecting sensor readings at field level. This paper presents a study about the industrial needs concerning data transmission, the sources of interference and attenuation for PLC signal in industry and the best technology available for these applications. The results of real communication tests with G3-PLC MODEMs working in a physically simulated industrial environment are presented. Different bands and subcarrier modulations were tested in order to recommend the one with best performance.","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":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125694933","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":"Feasibility study of ubiquitous sensor networks by inductively coupled PLC over PV power systems","authors":"S. Tsuzuki, Y. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147627","url":null,"abstract":"Simple and low-cost PLC will be required to play a role in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market such as ubiquitous wireless sensor networks. From the viewpoints of temporal connectivity and obtaining high SNR and stable channels, inductive coupling techniques for the kHz band PLC have been proposed in this paper. The results of three feasibility studies using a photovoltaic power system installed in our laboratory have been described. First, an inductive coupler is applied to the DC powerline channel, because it forms a low impedance loop circuit. It was proved that the DC power-line provided a high SNR channel, so that the simple modulation technique was enough to realize the ubiquitous PLC networks. The second topic is the contactless power supply using the same ferrite core as the PLC coupler. It has been shown that the proposed circuit could supply power of 35mW at the maximum to a wireless sensor node. The third topic is an application of the 1-wire PLC system to aerial cables. A suitable coupling method has been proposed to provide a low signal attenuation channel. The noise characteristic peculiar to photovoltaic (PV) power-line is also pointed out, that is the amount of noise on a sunny day with cloud occasionally exceeded that on a cloudless sunny day.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"65 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":"125899234","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":"High-bitrate downhole telemetry system","authors":"T. Tran, Wei Sun, J. Zeng, B. Więcek","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147628","url":null,"abstract":"The oil and gas industry is the driving force behind pushing embedded communication technologies beyond their original intention. The downhole power line communication design based on multicarrier modulation methods is commonly implemented in ADSL systems. The system is designed to transmit and receive high-bitrate data on a multi-conductor power transmission cable that is highly contaminated with broadband electrical noise generated by downhole equipment, requiring innovative crosstalk cancellation techniques in both the analog and digital domain to achieve better than 10-6 bit error rate (BER) performance at 200°C operating temperatures.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"13 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":"116823089","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":"Statistical modeling of PLC-to-DSL interference","authors":"Stefano Galli, K. Kerpez, H. Mariotte, F. Moulin","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147605","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution presents a new results on the statistical characterization of PLC-to-DSL interference. The frequency-dependent couplings between power line cables and twisted-pair were estimated from measurements on a large number of residential inside wires. A parametric statistical model based on a mixture of two truncated Gaussian distributions is then set forth. The proposed statistical model allows the statistical evaluation of the impact of broadband PLC (BB-PLC) interference on various DSL technologies. To the best of the Authors' knowledge, this is the first statistical model for PLC-to-DSL interference to be proposed.","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":"129956089","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":"Optimal power allocation for non-regenerative multicarrier relay-assisted PLC systems with QoS constraints","authors":"Xiaolin Wu, Y. Rong","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147604","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present an iterative algorithm to jointly optimize the source and relay power allocations for a general relay transmission system, i.e. the broadcast-and-multiaccess (BMA) multicarrier relay system, where the source transmits in two time-slots. Under the indoor power line communication environment, we examine the issue of minimization of the total network transmission power subjecting to QoS constraints expressed as the capacity lower-bound of the data-link from the source to the destination nodes. In addition to demonstrate the fast convergence of the proposed algorithm, the simulation results also show that with respect to the two-hop relay system and the broadcast-and-forward (BF) relay system, the proposed general relay system can satisfy the same QoS requirement while consume less total transmission power.","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":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122144591","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. D. Familua, A. Ndjiongue, K. Ogunyanda, Ling Cheng, H. C. Ferreira, T. Swart
{"title":"A Semi-hidden Markov modeling of a low complexity FSK-OOK in-house PLC and VLC integration","authors":"A. D. Familua, A. Ndjiongue, K. Ogunyanda, Ling Cheng, H. C. Ferreira, T. Swart","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147614","url":null,"abstract":"The integration of power line communication (PLC) and visible light communication (VLC) is increasingly receiving a lot of research interest with the advent of (IEEE 1901, ITUT G.9960/61) and IEEE 802.15.7 standards for PLC and VLC respectively. In particular, there is an underlying gain that could be achieved by leveraging the existing ubiquitous power line network infrastructure to render connectivity, while we also exploit the illumination system of power-saving Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for wireless data communication. The ubiquitous nature of these two systems makes us belief that VLC can offer a good complementary wireless data transmission technology to the existing In-House PLC in a similar manner broad-band Ethernet connections enjoys the support of Wi-Fi. This paper thus reports an implementation of a low complexity FSK-OOK In-House PLC and VLC Integration, as well as it's Second-Order Semi-Markov Model. The resulting statistical models facilitates the design and evaluation of forward error correcting codes to mitigate burst error occurrences, as well as optimizing the performance of the overall system.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"12 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":"125558395","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 PLC channel emulation via transmission line theory","authors":"Florian Gruber, L. Lampe","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147610","url":null,"abstract":"The emulation of power line communication (PLC) channels is an important tool for the analysis and development of PLC systems. Especially for the study of PLC networks, the so-called bottom-up channel emulation using transmission-line theory (TLT) is the proper method. The underlying assumption of this approach is that the power line propagation characteristics are known. That is, the per-unit length (PUL) parameters of the power lines need to be computed. However, especially for multi-conductor lines this can be theoretically and computationally challenging. In this paper, we present a compact overview of the computation of PUL parameters. We briefly discuss the assumptions associated with different solution methods and develop a numerical solver applicable to general multi-conductor transmission lines. Considering a sample set of different cable types, we demonstrate the effects of simplifying assumptions on the accuracy of computed PUL parameters and channel frequency responses.","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":"132896404","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}
F. V. Trimpont, Gaston Bayot Katumba, V. Moeyaert, S. Bette
{"title":"Impact of the weak link count mechanism on G3-PLC LOADng routing protocol","authors":"F. V. Trimpont, Gaston Bayot Katumba, V. Moeyaert, S. Bette","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147598","url":null,"abstract":"G3-PLC has been defined for Smart Grid. The electrical grid is considered as a dynamic network because its performance are time-dependant. It is the reason why G3-PLC standard choose adapted technologies to perform communication is such harsh conditions. One of them concerns the packets routing. Data transmission needs to be performed hop-by-hop by using nodes as relays. LOADng routing protocol, initially developed for Wireless Sensor Networks, was chosen but some mechanisms were added to increase its performance on PLC networks. These mechanisms are described in this paper and the weak link count mechanism is specifically studied. This mechanism privileges the best quality routes in place of the shortest routes in the network. The performance of the routing is then analysed by implementing the LOADng protocol on the network simulator Contiki/Cooja. In particular, we evaluate the impact of the frame error rate, the weak link rate and the average number of neighbours on the weak link count mechanism. Thanks to simulations, we determine in which cases this added mechanism improves the performance of G3-PLC LOADng.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"138 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":"124885768","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":"Electromagnetic compatibility in Europe for OFDM based PLC access data transmission in the frequency range 150 kHz to 500 kHz","authors":"Sebastian Ponzelar, A. Mengi, M. Koch","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147613","url":null,"abstract":"Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) is a key consideration for the development and operation of Power Line Communication (PLC) systems. Applicable EMC requirements and related standards may change depending on the considered regulatory regions (typically Japan, the United States and Europe have different regulations). This white paper focuses on EMC aspects to be considered for PLC roll-outs in the European market in the frequency range 3 kHz to 500 kHz.","PeriodicalId":222123,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC)","volume":"62 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":"123692016","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}