A management system for PLC networks using SNMP Protocol

Author

De Oliveira, Diogo Nunes ; Vasques, Thiago Lara ; Vieira, Flavio H. T. ; de Deus Júnior, Getulio Antero ; De Castro, Marcelo Stehling ; De Araújo, Sérgio Granato ; De Souza, Elton Mendes ; Vieira, José Goncalves ; de Oliveira Júnior, Ovidio Craveiro ; Bor

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Fed. Univ. of Goias, Goias, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

28-31 March 2010

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

83

Abstract

Access technologies for data transmission, such as xDSL, Wi-Fi and cable modem are widely used once they support high data transmission rates at low cost. Among these technologies, Power Line Communications (PLC) is an alternative promising solution. In order to get control over a telecommunication network operation, including PLC, it is necessary to use management techniques. Besides network control, these management techniques are intended to provide maximum knowledge of the system behavior and of involved devices. In this paper, we present a management solution model applied to PLC networks. In order to develop the proposed management system for PLC networks, we made use of a free software called Nagios. Practical evaluation tests showed that the proposed management model is scalable, reliable and can provide effective control of PLC networks in order to guarantee the required services to the users.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; protocols; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; Nagios software; PLC networks; SNMP protocol; network control; power line communications; simple network management protocol; telecommunication network management; Access protocols; Communication cables; Communication system control; Communications technology; Costs; Data communication; Modems; Power system management; Programmable control; Telecommunication control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5009-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5010-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2010.5479896

Filename

5479896