Title :
A low-cost and portable local area network for interconnecting PC´s using electric power lines
Author :
Vuong, Son T. ; Ma, Audivox H T
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
The development and implication of medium-access-control (MAC) and logical-link-control (LLC) protocols for a low-cost power-line local area network (LAN) is described. A hub polling scheme is developed for use in the MAC sublayer. For the LLC sublayer, a modified version of the IEEE 802.2 standard has been adopted. Some measurements and a performance evaluation of throughput and delay are presented and discussed. Using prototype 14400-b/s power-line modems, it is found that the design and implementation of the protocols on the Sun workstation provides a reasonable throughput and response time.<>
Keywords :
local area networks; protocols; 14.4 kbit/s; LAN; Sun workstation; delay; electric power lines; hub polling scheme; logical link control protocol; low-cost power-line local area network; medium access control protocol; performance evaluation; personal computer interconnection; portable local area network; power-line modems; response time; throughput; Access protocols; Costs; Delay; Error analysis; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Modems; Prototypes; Sun;
Journal_Title :
Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on
