While we typically tend to focus on designing communication systems for the wide- and neighborhood-area networks of the smart grid, addressing communication needs at the consumer-end, i.e., within the home-area network is equally important. Indoor Internet-of-Things increases the probability of gridlock inside smart-home networks, and demands efficient handling of network traffic. Our MAC-layer solutions, some of which use full-duplex operation, aim at reducing the time wasted in the network on unproductive activities like collision recovery and contention and priority resolution. While our focus is on power line home area networks, you will see that the solutions are universal in nature and adaptable across communication media.
More info:
G. Prasad, L. Lampe
Full-Duplex Power Line Communications: Design and Applications from Multimedia to Smart Grid
IEEE Commun. Mag., ’19 (in-press).
Y. Huo, G. Prasad, L. Lampe, V. C. M. Leung
Efficient Access Control for Broadband Power Line Communications in Home Area Networks
IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 1649–4661, Apr. ’18.
Y. Huo, G. Prasad, L. Lampe, V. C. M. Leung
Mutual Preamble Detection for Full Duplex Broadband Power Line Communications
IEEE GlobeCom ’16
G. Prasad, Y. Huo, L. Lampe, V. C. M. Leung
Frequency Domain Access Control for Power Line Communications in Home Area Networks
IEEE SmartGridComm ’17
I. Tsokalo, G. Prasad, S. Mudriievskyi, R. Lehnert
CSMA/CD in PLC: Test with full G. hn and IP/UDP Protocol Stack
IEEE ISPLC ’17