Conference paper
Efficient Medium Access Control for broadband Powerline Communications networks
2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp.625-630
IEEE
2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (Vancouver, BC, Canada, 22/04/2007–26/04/2007)
2007
Abstract
Powerline Communications (PLC) are currently being considered as an alternative for high-speed data communications and Internet access. With multiple outlets in almost every room, power lines are already the most pervasive network in the home or small office. This work presents a new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for the "last mile" access PLC networks. Via an extensive simulation study, our protocol is compared to a well-known protocol from the literature in terms of the efficiency of the transmission of long messages; our protocol is shown to excel both in network utilization and in the average signaling delay required for the completion of the transmission request procedure, in both the cases of a lightly and heavily disturbed PLC network.
Details
- Title
- Efficient Medium Access Control for broadband Powerline Communications networks
- Authors/Creators
- T. Chiras (Author/Creator)P. Koutsakis (Author/Creator)M. Paterakis (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- 2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp.625-630
- Conference
- 2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (Vancouver, BC, Canada, 22/04/2007–26/04/2007)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Identifiers
- 991005542325907891
- Copyright
- © 2007 IEEE
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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