Performance simulations of WLAN and Zigbee in electricity substation impulsive noise environments

Author

Bhatti, Sajjad Ahmad ; Shan, Qingxiao ; Atkinson, Robert ; Glover, Ian A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

fYear

2012

Firstpage

675

Lastpage

679

Abstract

A physical layer performance evaluation of WLAN (IEEE 802.11b) and Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4) receivers in the presence of impulsive noise is presented. Broadband impulsive noise is modeled as a Symmetric Alpha-Stable process. The parameters of the impulsive noise model are estimated from data recorded from an electricity transmission substation (ETS). The results show that the performance degradation of the Zigbee receiver is small whilst the WLAN receiver may suffer more significant degradation.

Keywords

Zigbee; impulse noise; radio receivers; substations; wireless LAN; ETS; IEEE 802.11b; IEEE 802.15.4 receivers; WLAN performance simulations; WLAN receiver; Zigbee receiver; broadband impulsive noise; electricity substation impulsive noise environments; electricity transmission substation; physical layer performance evaluation; symmetric alpha-stable process; Gaussian noise; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Receivers; Substations; Wireless LAN; Zigbee; WLAN; Zigbee; electricity substation; impulsive noise; non-Gaussian noise; symmetric alpha-stable process;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2012 IEEE Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0910-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0909-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486064

Filename

6486064