Impact of mains zero crossing synchronization on powerline communication

Author

Souissi, Souha ; Ben Rhouma, Ons ; Rebai, Chiheb

Author_Institution

GRESCOM Res. Lab., Univ. of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

fYear

2014

fDate

17-19 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of mains zero crossing (ZC) variation on single carrier powerline (PLC) system. Because of non-idealities of alternative current (AC) signal, ZC presents a fluctuant behavior that may corrupt communication performance for such PLC systems. Authors present an overview of narrowband PLC participation in smart grid applications and a study of main AC signal perturbations. After that, the effect of early and late ZC detection is studied over a single carrier PLC using different baud rates. Simulations show that a delay of one third bit duration deteriorates bit error rate to 10^-2 even in good channel conditions.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; error statistics; smart power grids; synchronisation; AC signal; ZC variation; alternative current signal; baud rates; bit error rate; fluctuant behavior; mains zero crossing synchronization; narrowband PLC participation; powerline communication; single carrier powerline system; smart grid; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Delays; Frequency shift keying; IEC standards; ISO; delay; mains; powerline; smart grid; synchronization; zero crossing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, Computers and Communications, The 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SNCC.2014.6866515

Filename

6866515