Abstract
This paper presents the discrete-event simulator of the low-voltage broadband power line communication (BPLC) access network in accordance with the IEEE P1901 standard. The proposed simulator enables the cross-layer simulation of the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layer. The performance of the digital communication techniques at the physical layer and the characteristics of the shared medium are integrated at the MAC layer through the probability of the bit error. The proposed simulator was applied in order to estimate the throughput in the simple BPLC network. For the selected set of parameters at the MAC and PHY layer in the test network, the simulator recorded average download throughput of 900kbps, registration time of 36ms and packet delivery ratio of for 0.98 between each station and the HE.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.19.5.1440
Highlights
In this paper, we propose a discrete-event simulator that simulates behaviour of one cell in the broadband power line communication (BPLC) access network at the media access (MAC) layer, in compliance with the standard IEEE P1901 [1]
This paper presents the discrete-event simulator of the low-voltage broadband power line communication (BPLC) access network in accordance with the IEEE P1901 standard
We propose a discrete-event simulator that simulates behaviour of one cell in the broadband power line communication (BPLC) access network at the media access (MAC) layer, in compliance with the standard IEEE P1901 [1]
Summary
We propose a discrete-event simulator that simulates behaviour of one cell in the broadband power line communication (BPLC) access network at the media access (MAC) layer, in compliance with the standard IEEE P1901 [1]. Probability of the bit error rate Pe as a function of the energy per bit to noise power spectral density ratio Eb/N0 is simulated in MATLAB and stored for different distribution grid topologies and characteristics. The MAC-level simulator is developed using the open-source OMNeT++ [2] simulation framework and represents a useful tool for estimation of the power line communication (PLC) system performance. In the further subsections we briefly describe the PLC technology, its role in the smart grid concept and approaches to PLC network simulations.
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