A low-cost and portable local area network for interconnecting PC's using electric power lines

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE journal on selected areas in communications 1989-02, Vol.7 (2), p.192-201
Main Authors: Vuong, S.T., Ma, A.H.T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access protocols
Applied sciences
Costs
Delay
Error analysis
Exact sciences and technology
LAN interconnection
Local area networks
Media Access Protocol
Modems
Networks and services in france and abroad
Prototypes
Public networks and services (including isdn)
Sun
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Teleprocessing networks. Isdn
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary: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.< >
ISSN:0733-8716
1558-0008
DOI:10.1109/49.17688