Energy efficiency performance of relay-assisted Power-Line Communication networks

Author

Bakkali, Wafae ; Pagani, Pascal ; Chonavel, Thierry

Author_Institution

Orange Labs., Lannion, France

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

525

Lastpage

530

Abstract

In this paper a simulations-based evaluation of the energy efficiency performance of relay Power Line Communication (PLC) networks is reported. Our system model is based on two PLC modems as source/destination and one relay modem with time division Decode-and-Forward (DF) scheme. In addition to the transmission power, we consider the static power of PLC modems in our energy consumption model and find the best energy efficiency performance for DF strategy by optimizing the transmission time of each link. Through extensive numerical results and two representative scenarios, we show that the use of PLC relaying with optimal time allocation allows for better performance than direct transmission, yet achieving the same rate of the direct transmission.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; decode and forward communication; energy conservation; modems; optimisation; relay networks (telecommunication); time division multiple access; DF strategy; PLC modem; energy consumption model; energy efficiency performance; optimal time allocation; relay assisted power line communication network; relay modem; static power; time division decode and forward scheme; transmission time optimisation; Gain; High definition video; Modems; Power demand; Receivers; Relays; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2015 12th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

2331-9860

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6389-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2015.7158029

Filename

7158029