{"title":"CSMA/CA: Improvements of the contention window adaptation","authors":"S. Mudriievskyi, R. Radeke, R. Lehnert","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525824","url":null,"abstract":"We study the Narrowband Power Line Communications (NB-PLC) system intended to be used for Smart Grid applications. The performance of such system highly depends on the implementation and the used techniques. In this paper the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of a specific system with the Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) mechanism is studied. The main feature of the used technique is that it automatically adopts the parameters of the protocol to the dynamically changing network. We investigate the protocol and suggest the improvements that give a higher performance.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121206745","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":"Cyclic block FMT modulation for broadband power line communications","authors":"A. Tonello, M. Girotto","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525858","url":null,"abstract":"A novel multi-carrier modulation scheme for broadband power line communication (PLC) is presented. The novel architecture is based on the Filtered Multitone (FMT) modulation concept. However, the novel modulation scheme uses the circular convolution instead of the linear convolution in the filtering operations. We refer to this new architecture as Cyclic Block Filtered Multitone Modulation (CB-FMT). CB-FMT can benefit from the high sub-channel frequency confinement and the design of an orthogonal prototype pulse is simplified w.r.t. conventional FMT. A simple frequency domain equalizer can be deployed in frequency selective channels. Furthermore, CB-FMT can offer high frequency notching capability which is an important requirement in PLC to fulfill EMC norms. Numerical results show that CB-FMT has higher achievable rate than OFDM for the same number of data sub-channels.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114840357","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":"Effects of LED lamps on the power-line communications channel","authors":"A. D. de Beer, A. Emleh, H. Ferreira, A. Vinck","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525851","url":null,"abstract":"LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamps have recently come on to the market as energy efficient alternatives to incandescent light bulbs. Although energy effective, they inject conductive noise into the power-line system. This can have a detrimental effect on the power-line communications channel. This paper investigates these effects when LED lamps are seen as noise sources on the power line. It shows that there are two classes of LED lamps - depending on the noise generating electronics used as drivers for the light emitting diodes. Different driver electronics have different influences in different parts of the emission spectrum. It is shown that in the CENELEC band: (3kHz-150kHz) the interference level from LED lamps is significantly below the allowed maximum PLC signal levels. In the band 150kHz-30MHz however, PLC signals compete with Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) levels and the SNR can be equal to zero, but only if the lamps have active power electronic converters.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130565405","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 power optimised narrowband power-line communication system","authors":"Yuhao Sun, G. Amaratunga","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525844","url":null,"abstract":"Narrowband Power-line Communication (NPLC) technology uses a narrow bandwidth to transmit information. Its major applications include control, smart home systems and security. This paper proposes a power optimised NPLC system to minimise its systemic power consumption without compromising its communication ability. By using the proposed Smart Energy Conservation Layer which reads the signal strength from the PLC channel, a power optimised system is achieved to provide the essential transmitting power to secure the communications. Compared to commercial systems, the potential power saving could be up to 99% in a household environment, as demonstrated by the experimental results.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122156932","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":"Robust turbo decoding in impulse noise channels","authors":"Der-Feng Tseng, Tsung-Ru Tsai, Y. Han","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525855","url":null,"abstract":"Powerline communications, an enabling technology for data networking alternative, susceptible to impulse noise such that it is likely to miss an assured quality of service. Turbo coding has long served as an essential tool to overcome this obstacle. However, this comes at the cost of estimating the statistics of impulse noise, which is generally not time-invariant and may change rapidly over time, further increasing receiver complexity. This study proposes clipping on trellis to avoid this problem. A corresponding decoder metric dictated by the clipping threshold, which is a function of the probability of guessing for the unknown impulse arrival probability, was properly formulated to leverage the coding gain. Regardless of the impulse noise model assumed, the simulation results in this study, in terms of bit error probability, show that the proposed decoding scheme is robust to impulse and performs fairly close to its sophisticated counterpart, which however fully exploits the statistics of the impulse noise.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116115665","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 binary tree network topology for statistical and physical PLC channel modeling","authors":"C. Delestre, G. Ndo, F. Labeau","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525872","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional powerline channel modeling methods usually present the drawback to be either not strongly attached to the underlying physics or to be too difficult to implement for complex electrical networks. To tackle these issues, we propose, in this paper, a statistical modeling of the network topology with a binary tree, combined to the classical bottom-up calculation of the channel transfer function (CTF). The proposed approach allows to build recursive algorithms for topology tree construction and for automatic CTF computation. Moreover, these algorithms can be easily extended to Multiple-Input-Multiple-Ouput (MIMO) case from the Single-Input-Single-Output (SISO) scenario considered here.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122644314","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":"Real problems solving in PRIME networks by means of simulation","authors":"A. Sanz, P. J. Piñero, S. Miguel, J. I. Garcia","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525865","url":null,"abstract":"Smart grid is one of the most important technological initiatives nowadays. This technology is a recent proposal that uses computerized systems to improve the availability and reliability of the electricity distribution network, which main purpose is to solve the different problems derived from the increment in the number of users and power sources. Among the different smart grid components, the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is currently the most developed one, since nowadays there are hundreds of intelligent meter deployments all over the world. Several technologies can be used to widespread this infrastructure, however powerline communications are the most widely used. The different standards based on this technology for smart metering are still under development and lots of problems are found in real scenarios. In order to simplify this development and the problem solving processes, a PLC simulation environment that simulate the real meters code was recently presented. In this paper, it is shown the current status of this tool and one of its real applications, in which a real problem found in a PRIME based metering network is solved.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124345347","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}
K. Kilani, V. Degardin, P. Laly, M. Liénard, P. Degauque
{"title":"Impulsive noise generated by a pulse width modulation inverter: Modeling and impact on powerline communication","authors":"K. Kilani, V. Degardin, P. Laly, M. Liénard, P. Degauque","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525828","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, to ensure data transmission between an inverter and the sensors implemented on a motor, a dedicated cable is used. Since in an aircraft environment, weight is a critical issue, this cable may be avoided by using Power Line Communication technology (PLC), i.e. by transmitting the information on the 3-phase power cable connecting the inverter and the motor. This approach also presents advantages in terms of reliability and maintenance. However impulsive noise due to the inverter has a strong impact on the performances of the link. In order to optimize the communication scheme, it is important to characterize this noise both in the frequency domain and in the time domain. The objective of the work presented in this paper is first to extract the main impulsive noise characteristics and to study their variation as a function of the electrical configuration as the rotation speed of the motor. A noise model is then proposed to be used as an input in a software tool simulating the link in order to optimize the transmission scheme. Performances of PLC links are calculated in terms of bit error rate for different bit rates.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133313881","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}
K. Nieman, Jing Lin, M. Nassar, K. Waheed, B. Evans
{"title":"Cyclic spectral analysis of power line noise in the 3–200 kHz band","authors":"K. Nieman, Jing Lin, M. Nassar, K. Waheed, B. Evans","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525870","url":null,"abstract":"Narrowband OFDM Power Line Communication (NB-OFDM PLC) systems are a key component of current and future smart grids. NB-OFDM PLC systems enable next-generation smart metering, distributed control, and monitoring applications over existing power delivery infrastructure. It has been shown that the performance of these systems is severely limited by impulsive, non-Gaussian additive noise. A substantial component of this noise has time-periodic statistics (i.e. it is cyclostationary) synchronous to the AC mains cycle. In this work, we analyze the cyclic structure of power line noise observed in a G3 PLC system operating in the CENELEC 3-148.5 kHz band. Our contributions include: (i) the characterization of noise measurements in several urban usage environments, (ii) the development of a cyclic bit loading method for G3, and (iii) the quantification of its throughput gains over measured noise. Through this analysis, we confirm strong cyclostationarity in power lines and identify several sources of the cyclic noise.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114434076","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, T. Ronkainen, J. Makela, J. Iinatti
{"title":"Measurement-based 3D-simulation models for elements of power line communications network","authors":"R. Vuohtoniemi, T. Ronkainen, J. Makela, J. Iinatti","doi":"10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2013.6525831","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents 3D-simulation models for typical power line communication (PLC) network elements based on permittivity measurement results. We show that, e.g., materials of typically used plugs and sockets contribute to the overall performance of a PLC system especially at high frequencies. The work describes the main components of home and office area low voltage power distribution networks and disassembles the components into 3D-simulation models that can be used to analyze the data networking performance of the PLC network. The novel results indicate that the materials of the elements have an effect on the transmission properties and that should be taken into account. These effects have been analyzed using generated simulation models for the elements of the PLC network. The verification of transmission characteristics measurements using the constructed test bed of a PLC network segment and in a real low power office PLC network have been done.","PeriodicalId":415075,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121368395","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}