Modeling MAC layer for powerline communications networks

Halid Hrasnica; Abdelfatteh Haidine

doi:10.1117/12.417473

2 February 2001 Modeling MAC layer for powerline communications networks

Halid Hrasnica, Abdelfatteh Haidine

Proceedings Volume 4211, Internet Quality and Performance and Control of Network Systems; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.417473
Event: Information Technologies 2000, 2000, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The usage of electrical power distribution networks for voice and data transmission, called Powerline Communications, becomes nowadays more and more attractive, particularly in the telecommunication access area. The most important reasons for that are the deregulation of the telecommunication market and a fact that the access networks are still property of former monopolistic companies. In this work, first we analyze a PLC network and system structure as well as a disturbance scenario in powerline networks. After that, we define a logical structure of the powerline MAC layer and propose the reservation MAC protocols for the usage in the PLC network which provides collision free data transmission. This makes possible better network utilization and realization of QoS guarantees which can make PLC networks competitive to other access technologies.

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Halid Hrasnica and Abdelfatteh Haidine "Modeling MAC layer for powerline communications networks", Proc. SPIE 4211, Internet Quality and Performance and Control of Network Systems, (2 February 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.417473

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