Title :
Performance simulations of WLAN and Zigbee in electricity substation impulsive noise environments
Author :
Bhatti, Sajjad Ahmad ; Shan, Qingxiao ; Atkinson, Robert ; Glover, Ian A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
A physical layer performance evaluation of WLAN (IEEE 802.11b) and Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4) receivers in the presence of impulsive noise is presented. Broadband impulsive noise is modeled as a Symmetric Alpha-Stable process. The parameters of the impulsive noise model are estimated from data recorded from an electricity transmission substation (ETS). The results show that the performance degradation of the Zigbee receiver is small whilst the WLAN receiver may suffer more significant degradation.
Keywords :
Zigbee; impulse noise; radio receivers; substations; wireless LAN; ETS; IEEE 802.11b; IEEE 802.15.4 receivers; WLAN performance simulations; WLAN receiver; Zigbee receiver; broadband impulsive noise; electricity substation impulsive noise environments; electricity transmission substation; physical layer performance evaluation; symmetric alpha-stable process; Gaussian noise; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Receivers; Substations; Wireless LAN; Zigbee; WLAN; Zigbee; electricity substation; impulsive noise; non-Gaussian noise; symmetric alpha-stable process;
Conference_Titel :
Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2012 IEEE Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tainan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0910-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0909-7
DOI :
10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486064
