Performance evaluation of CEBus power line communication in the presence of X-10 module signaling

A power line of CEBus has great potential towards inexpensive home automation. Both PLBus and X-10 uses [sic] burst of 120KHz signals to transmit bits of information on the power line. However, these two systems are completely incompatible and can conflict with each other. This thesis presents the first performance evaluation of Power Line CEBus communication in the presence of X-10 module signaling. The evaluation included simulation experiments measuring packet delays, message delays, message throughput, channel throughput and the percentage of messages received in error verses [sic] different loads. Network performance has been confirmed to function well in terms of delays and throughputs over the practical range of normalized offered load. Also the percentage of CEBus messages received in error due to a collision with X-10 signals did not exceed 2% in all [sic] our cases