Performance Evaluation of a PLC Field Trial: The Behavior of the TCP/IP Stack

Author

Gutiérrez, Verónica ; Galache, José A. ; Aguero, Ramón ; Muñoz, Luis

Author_Institution

Cantabria Univ., Santander

fYear

2007

fDate

26-28 March 2007

Firstpage

378

Lastpage

384

Abstract

Power line communications (PLC) are emerging as one of the most promising solutions in order to provide ubiquitous data communications. Hence, utility companies are seriously considering the massive deployment of communications infrastructure to inject and transport data signal information, over the original 50/60 Hz power lines. This paper depicts the results obtained from a pilot in a suburban area, embracing both medium voltage (MV) and low voltage (LV) infrastructures. A set of practical measurements will be carried out over both the MV and the LV networks, in order to characterize the performance of the TCP/UDP/IP protocol stack.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; transport protocols; TCP/IP stack; communications infrastructure; low voltage infrastructures; medium voltage infrastructures; power line communications; protocol stack; transport data signal information; ubiquitous data communications; utility companies; Data communication; Low voltage; Medium voltage; Network servers; Power line communications; Programmable control; Protocols; TCPIP; Web and internet services; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and Its Applications, 2007. ISPLC '07. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1090-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1090-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2007.371154

Filename

4231728