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JCM 2024 Vol.19(12): 567-579
DOI: 10.12720/jcm.19.12.567-579

Proposal of System-specific Period Superimposed Chart for Visualization of Communication Status of HD-PLC System

Kenji Kita1,*, Wataru Abe2, Junya Aoki2, Ryutaro Sato2, Hiroyasu Ishikawa3, and Hideyuki Shinonaga2
1School of Informatics, Daido University, Nagoya, Japan
2Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan
3College of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, Japan
Email: k-kita@daido-it.ac.jp (K.K.); s36c01800029@gmail.com (W.A.); s36c02000011@gmail.com (J.A.); ryu12sato@gmail.com (R.S.); ishikawa.hiroyasu@nihon-u.ac.jp (H.I.); shinonaga@toyo.jp (H.S.)
*Corresponding author

Manuscript received September 3, 2024; revised October 10, 2024; accepted October 15, 2024; published December 16, 2024.

Abstract—Power line communications (PLC) is a communication technology that uses a power line as a transmission medium. This study focuses on HD-PLC systems and proposes a system-specific period superimposed chart (SSP-SC) that visualizes the steady-state communication state using packet capture data. The conventional method of directly observing PLC signal waveforms in power lines using an oscilloscope makes it difficult to visualize signals over the long term. In addition, the number of burst signal inclusion packets is difficult to evaluate from the signal length, as the signal length varies depending on the communication environment. Furthermore, no methods have been proposed for PLCs to intuitively visualize communication conditions such as eye patterns and constellations in wireless communication. SSP-SC is a new visualization method for those problems, and its effectiveness is confirmed by comparison with conventional methods.
 

Keywords—PLC, packet capture analysis, visualization of communication status


Cite: Kenji Kita, Wataru Abe, Junya Aoki, Ryutaro Sato, Hiroyasu Ishikawa and Hideyuki Shinonaga, “Proposal of System-specific Period Superimposed Chart for Visualization of Communication Status of HD-PLC System," Journal of Communications, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 567-579, 2024.

 

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