Title
Measuring link characteristics of power line communication systems
Abstract
Knowing link characteristics of a network connection is essential for the efficient design, management, and usage of a network. In view of the proliferation of power line communication systems, in this work, we propose a novel measurement approach, called PLC-Probe, to concurrently measure link capacity and available bandwidth of PLC links. PLC-Probe uses `train-chirps' to probe the network, and it combines the strengths of the packet train and packet chirp approaches for estimation of link characteristics. Using testbed experiment, we evaluate the proposed approach and show that PLC-Probe is accurate, stable, and robust against cross traffic. Moreover, PLC-Probe is simple, effective, and applicable to other multi-rated PLC-like networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICC.2013.6655244
ICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
packet train approach,carrier transmission on power lines,train-chirps,packet chirp approach,power line communication systems,telecommunication network management,network connection,plc links,plc-probe measurement approach,link characteristic measurement,chirp,bandwidth,estimation
Computer science,Network packet,Power-line communication,Transmission delay,Testbed,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Chirp,Network traffic control,Network connection
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei-Xian Lee100.34
Li-Ping Tung2408.56
Yao Hua Ho38413.79
Ling-Jyh Chen475978.81