A1: Measurement and channel characterization I
A2: Measurement and channel characterization II
A3: Measurement and channel characterization III
A4: Coding and communication theory
A5: OFDM & signal processing
A6: Modulation & spread spectrum techniques
A7: Indoor communicationsB1: MAC layer I
B2: MAC layer II
B3: EMC & EMI
B4: Measurement and channel characterization IV
B5: MODEM design
B6: Services and applications
B7: Modulation

Advanced Program

Plenary Session P1

Wednesday 31 March 2004, Room A
09:00-10:20

Halid Hrasnica: MAC LAYER IN BROADBAND PLC NETWORKS. STATE OF THE ART, SOLUTIONS AND MODELLING.

Paul Brown: REVIEWING THE STATE OF THE ART IN EMC, MV PLT EMISSION MEASUREMENTS METHODS AND FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE PROTECTION OF WIRELESS SERVICES

Session A1: Measurement and channel characterization I

Wednesday 31 March 2004, Room A
10:40-12:00

A1-1 AN EXPERIMENTAL METHOD OF ESTIMATING THE TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF POWER-LINE CABLES
Despina Anastasiadou (Academic Research Computers Technology Institute, Patras, Greece), and Theodore Antonakopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)

A1-2 MODELING HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL PROPAGATION OVER LOW VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION LINES
R. Keyhani and D. Birtwhistle (Queensland Universitu of Technology, Brisbane)

A1-3 ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF LOW-VOLTAGE NETWORKS FOR PLANNING OF POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS NETWORKS
Abdelfatteh Haidine, Halid Hrasnica, Ralf Lehnert (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

A1-4 A STOCHASTIC MODEL OF WIDE-BAND COMMUNICATION CHANNELS AT POWER SUPPLIES OF RAPID TRANSIT RAILWAYS
P. Karols, K. Dostert (University of Karlsruhe, Germany), G. Griepentrog, J. Rupp (Siemens AG, Germany)

A1-5 VARIATION OF LOW VOLTAGE POWER CABLES' ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS DUE TO CURRENT FREQUENCY AND EARTH PRESENCE
G. T. Andreou, D. P. Labridis, F. A. Apostolou, G. A. Karamanou, M. P. Lachana (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Session B1: MAC Layer I

Wednesday 31 March 2004, Room B
10:40-12:00

B1-1 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF RESERVATION MAC PROTOCOLS UNDER SELECTIVE DISTURBANCES IN BROADBAND PLC NETWORKS
Halid Hrasnica, Ralf Lehnert (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

B1-2 MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF IMPULSIVE NOISE ON BROADBAND PLC NETWORKS
Y. H. Ma, P. L. So, E. Gunawan, Y. Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

B1-3 TURBO DECODING OVER IMPULSIVE NOISE CHANNEL
Daisuke Umehara, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yoshiteru Morihiro (Kyoto University, Japan)

B1-4 A CONTRIBUTION TO QoS IN PLC SYSTEMS WITH CSMA SIGNAL POWER-BASED ON CHANNEL SELECTION
Omar Stihi, Fares Boudjema and Fares Nafa (Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria)

B1-5 A BROADBAND PLC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN C BAND
Pedro Estopiñan, A. Sanz, J.I. García Nicolás, I.Urriza (Department of Electronic and Communications Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Session A2: Measurement and channel characterization II

Wednesday 31 March 2004, Room A
14:40-16:00

A2-1 MEASUREMENTS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT IN MEDIUM VOLTAGE POWER DISTRIBUTION LINES FOR WIDE-BAND POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS
Jae-Jo Lee, Seung-Ji Choi, Huy-Myoung Oh, Won-Tae Lee, Kwan-Ho Kim, Dae-Young Lee (Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute)

A2-2 WIDEBAND CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE MEASUREMENT METHOD USING PN SEQUENCES FOR THE MEDIUM VOLTAGE POWER DISTRIBUTION LINE CHANNEL
Hui-Myoung Oh, Jae-Jo Lee, Kwan-Ho Kim, Keum-Chan Whang (Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute)

A2-3 INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION MODEL OF THE HV POWER-LINE CHANNEL
Nermin Suljanovic, Aljo Mujcic, Matej Zajc, Jurij Tasic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana)

A2-4 THE DINAMICS OF BROADBAND PLT SISTEMS
John Newbury, Ray Brannon, Fraser Robertson (Faculty of Technology, The Open University, Manchester, England)

Session B2: MAC Layer II

Wednesday 31 March 2004, Room B
14:40-16:00

B2-1 AN INNOVATIVE ADAPTIVE CHANNEL ACCESS MECHANISM
Ronen Gazit and Asaf Avidan (ITRAN Communications Ltd. , Israel)

B2-2 A RATE ADAPTIVE BIT-LOADING ALGORITHM FOR A DISCRETE MULTI-TONE MODULATION SYSTEM IN DOWNSTREAM POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS
Simone Morosi, Enrico del Re, Romano Fantacci, Dania Marabissi, Nicola del Santo (Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)

B2-3 A SURFACE-BASED IN-HOUSE NETWORK MEDIUM FOR POWER, COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION
Javad Yazdani, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Kristof Van Laerhoven (Lancaster University and East Lancashire Institute, United Kingdom)

B2-4 MAC LEVEL DESIGN FOR A BROADBAND PLC COMMUNICATIONS SISTEM
Adrián Pérez Resa, A. Sanz, J. I. García Nicolás, I. Urriza (University of Zaragoza, Spain )

Session A3: Measurements and Channel Characterization III

Wednesday 31 March 2004, Room A
16:20-17:20

A3-1 AN ADAPTIVE PLC RECEIVER WITH THE ESTIMATION OF INSTANTANEOUS NOISE POWER
Y. Hirayama (Katayama Lab., Dept. of Info. Elec., Graduate School of Eng., Nagoya University, Japan), H. Okada, T. Yamazato, M. Katayama (Center for Information Media Studies, Nagoya University, Japan)

A3-2 BROADBAND CHARACTERIZATION OF INDOOR POWERLINE CHANNEL
Er Liu, Yangpo Gao, Osama Bilal and Timo Korhonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

A3-3 DESIGN OF BROADBAND COUPLING CIRCUITS FOR POWER-LINE COMMUNICATION
Osama Bilal, Liu Er, Yangpo Gao and Timo O. Korhonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

A3-4 IN SITU MEASUREMENTS IN A STAR RING MEDIUM VOLTAGE NETWORK
Fawzi Issa and Olivier Devaux (Research and Development Department, Electricité de France, France)

A3-5 A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM TO CHARACTERIZE POWER LINE CHANNELS TIME BEHAVIOUR
José Luis Carmona Maqueda, Luis Díez del Río, Francisco Javier Cañete Corripio, José Antonio Cortés Arrabal (University of Málaga, Spain)

Session B3: EMC & EMI

Wednesday 31 March 2004, Room B
16:20-17:20

B3-1 MEASUREMENT OF COMMON-MODE PROPAGATING PATH OF POWER LINE FOR EMI STUDY
K.Y. See, A. Kamarul, P. L. So, E. Gunawan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Robinson Law and John Ng (Agilent Technologies Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore)

B3-2 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION CAUSED BY PLC WITH HIGH FREQUENCY BAND SIGNALS
Kentaro Asano, Masami Shin, (The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc, Japan) , Yasuo Matsuura, Shinji Yamamoto, Naoya Nakayama (Linecorn Co.Inc, Japan)

B3-3 A LOW INTERFERENCE PLC MODEM OF SELECTING SUBCARRIERS BASED ON LCTL MEASUREMENT
Hirotada Furukawa (Device Development Center, TDK Corporation, Chiba, Japan), and Shinji Tsuzuki (Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan)

B3-4 PROPOSAL ON THE REDUCTION METHODS FOR SIGNAL ATTENUATION AND ELECTROMAGNETIC LEAKAGE ON THE LOW VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND ITS VERIFICATION
Yukihito Morimoto, Hisanaga Miyazawa, Masafumi Imai (Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc, Nagoya, Japan) , Yutaka Kokai, Yuuji Ichinose (Hitachi Ltd, Japan)

B3-5 MEASURING THE LONGITUDINAL CONVERSION LOSS VALUE OF IN-HOUSE LOW VOLTAGE POWER LINES

Christian Hensen (Eichhoff GmbH, Germany) , Wolfgang Schulz (University of Paderborn)

Plenary Session P2

Thursday 1st April 2004, Room A
09:00-10:20

Elisa García Martín (IBERINCO): OPEN PLC EUROPEAN RESEARCH ALLIANCE (OPERA) PROJECT
Alberto Sendín Escalona (IBERDROLA DISTRIBUCION, COMUNICACIONES Y CONTROL): PLC COMMERCIAL DEPLOYMENT OF IBERDROLA

Session A4: Coding and Communication Theory

Thursday 1 April 2004, Room A
10:40-12:00

A4-1 ON CODED M-ARY FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING
A. J. Han Vinck, Alina Hasbi, H.C.Ferreira and T.Swarts (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

A4-2 TURBO CODED OFDM/QAM SCHEME FOR A HIGH-SPEED POWER LINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Jin Young Kim, Ph. D. (Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea)

A4-3 TURBO ARQ SCHEME FOR PACKET DATA TRANSMISSION IN POWER LINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Jin Young Kim, Ph. D. (Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea)

A4-4 OPTIMUM SPACE-DIVERSITY RECEIVER FOR CLASS A NOISE CHANNELS
Carlos L. Giovaneli, Bahram Honary and Patrick G. Farrell (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

Session B4: Measurement and channel characterization

Thursday 1 April 2004, Room B
10:40-12:00

B4-1 SEMI-BLIND ESTIMATION METHOD IN DMT-BASED TRANSMISSION ON INDOOR POWER LINE
V. Dégardin, M. Liénard, P. Degauque (University of Lille, France)

B4-2 ADOPTATION OF MV PLC SYSTEM USING DCSK MODULATION
ByungSeok Park, YoungHoon Lim, Tae-Young Lee, DuckHwa Hyung, Donghee Yoo (Korea Electric Power Research Institute)

B4-3 SYNCHRONIZATION AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR WIDE BAND IMPULSE MODULATION OVER POWER LINE CHANNELS
Andrea M. Tonello, Roberto Rinaldo, Marco Bellin (Universitá di Udine, Italy)

B4-4 POWER-LINE PHYSICAL LAYER EMULATOR FOR PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT
Gerd Bumiller (iAd GmbH, Germany)

Session A5: OFDM & Signal Processing

Thursday 1 April 2004, Room A
14:40-16:00

A5-1 RESEARCH AREAS FOR EFFICIENT POWER LINE COMMUNICATION MODEMS
Arturo Purroy Nievas (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

A5-2 AN FPGA BASED OFDM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR THE CONTACTLESS DECENTRALIZED TRANSPORTATION
Zhidong Hua, Klaus D. Müller-Glaser (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany), and Olaf Simon (IEEE member, Department IMP4 , Germany)

A5-3 A PLC BASED ENERGY CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM-PILOT INSTALLATION FIELD TESTS AND SIMULATION RESULTS
G. Papagiannis, D. Tsiamitros, K. Gouramanis, G. Andreou, P. Dokopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

A5-4 OPTIMIZED FULLY PROGRAMMABLE DSP BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF BROADBAND POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS MODEM
Fatma Rouissi, Adel Ghazel, Fethi Tlili (Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Ariana , Tunisia)

Session B5: Modem design

Thursday 1 April 2004, Room B
14:40-16:00

B5-1 STEP-BY-STEP DESIGN OF A COUPLING CIRCUIT WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION CAPABILITIES
Petrus A. Janse Van Rensburg (Border Technikon, South Africa), and Hendrik C. Ferreira (Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa)

B5-2 THE ROLE OF MAGNETIZING AND LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE IN TRANSFORMER COUPLING CIRCUITRY
Petrus A. Janse Van Rensburg (Border Technikon, South Africa), and Hendrik C. Ferreira (Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa)

B5-3 CHANNEL MODELING AND MODEM DESIGN FOR BROADBAND POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS
Yangpo Gao, Er Liu, Osama Bilal and Timo Korhonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

B5-4 DYNAMIC-RANGE IMPROVEMENT OF AN LCL AND TCL PROBE FOR RESIDENTIAL POWER-LINES
Shinji Tsuzuki, Yasuto Kawakami, Yoshio Yamada (Ehime University, Japan), and Hirotada Furukawa (TDK Corporation, Japan)

B5-5 USING INDUCTIVE COUPLING UNITS FOR TRANSMISSION OVER SHIELD IN CONTACT WITH EARTH MV-CABLES
Gerd Bumiller (iAd GmbH, Germany)

Session A6: Modulation & Spread spectrum techniques

Thursday 1 April 2004, Room A
16:20-17:40

A6-1 IMPROVED M-ARY MULTILEVEL FSK POWER-LINE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
Shingo Komatsu, Masanori Hamamura, Gen Marubayashi (Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, and Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan)

A6-2 EVALUATION OF CODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ON POWER LINE COMMUNICATION
Adriano Favaro and Eduardo Parente Ribeiro (Federal University of Parana, Brasil)

A6-3 LOCAL AREA NETWORK OVER POWERLINE USING CDMA
Ademar Luiz Pastro and Eduardo Parente Ribeiro (Federal University of Parana, Brasil)

A6-4 GAUSSIAN MULTICARRIER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH TURBODETECTION FOR POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS
Hiroshi Suzuki, Yoshitaka Nomura, Satoshi Suyama,
and Kazuhiko Fukawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Session B6: Multiple Access Techniques

Thursday 1 April 2004, Room B
16:20-17:20

B6-1 POLI-MAS: POWER-LINE MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SYSTEM
Fernando José Mato Méndez and Carlos Mosquera (Universidad de Vigo, Spain)

B6-2 PLC NETWORK TRAFFIC MODELING FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF REMOTE MONITORING OF ELECTRICAL POWER CONSUMPTION IN TANZANIA
J. Anatory, M. M. Kissaka and N. H. Mvungi (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

B6-3 ENERGY METER READING THROUGH POWER LINE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
S. Naiman, M. M. Kissaka and N. H. Mvungi (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

B6-4 REMOTE ENERGY METERING OVER POWERLINES AND INTERNET
Gerd Bumiller (iAd GmbH, Grohabersdorf, Germany), Thilo Sauter, Albert Treytl (Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology)

B6-5 MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSION OVER POWERLINE CHANNELS USING SPACE TIME DIVERSITY TECHNICS
Vasileios Zarimpas, Carlos L. Giovaneli and Bahram Honary (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

Plenary Session P3

Friday, 2nd April 2004, Room A
09:00-09:40

Borja de Pablos (ENDESA NETFACTORY): PLC COMMERCIAL DEPLOYMENT OF ENDESA
David Ariñez (DS2): PLC TECHNOLOGY OF DS2

Session A7: Indoor Communications

Friday 2 April 2004, Room A
10:00-11:20

A7-1 BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS IN THE INDOOR POWER LINE ENVIRONMENT: THE pDSL CONCEPT
Despina Anastasiadou (Academic Research Computers Technology Institute, Patras, Greece), and Theodore Antonakopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)

A7-2 TWO-CONDUCTOR HF TRANSMISSION-LINE SOLUTION FOR SYMMETRICAL INDOOR TRIPLE POLE CABLES
Ioannis C. Papaleonidopoulos, Constantinos G. Karagiannopoulos, Georgios T. Andreou, Nickolas J. Theodorou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

A7-3 EFFICIENT HF MULTIPATH ESTIMATION FOR SINGLE PHASE INDOOR PLC CHANNELS
Ioannis C. Papaleonidopoulos, Constantinos G. Karagiannopoulos, Georgios T. Andreou, Nicolás J. Theodorou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

A7-4 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HOME NETWORK SYSTEM USING HOME NETWORK CONTROL PROTOCOL
Kam-Rok Lee, Jae-Ming Lee, Kwan-Joo Myoung, Joseph Jeon, Wook-Hyun Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea), and Young-Man Kim (Samsung Electronicos Co., Korea)

A7-5 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONOF THE HNCP-UPnP BRIDGE USING A VIRTUAL DEVICE
Joseph Jeon, Jae-Ming Lee, Kwan-Joo Myoung, Kam-Rok Lee, Wook-Hyun Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea), and Beom-Seog Ko (LG Electronics Inc., Korea)

Session B7: Modulation

Friday 2 April 2004, Room B
10:00-11:20

B7-1 PERFORMANCE OF SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING OVER THE POWER LINE CHANNEL IN COMPARISION WITH THE WIRELESS CHANNEL
A. Papaioannou, G. D. Papadopoulos, F. N. Pavlidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

B7-2 DETECTION ALGORITHMS FOR WIDE BAND IMPULSE MODULATION BASED SYSTEMS OVER POWER LINE CHANNELS
Andrea M. Tonello, Roberto Rinaldo, Luca Scarel (Universitá di Udine, Italy)

B7-3 A STUDY ON ADAPTIVE SUBCARRIER MODULATION IN OFDM TRANSMISSION COMBINED WITH SUBCARRIER TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL
Daigoro Watanabe, Makoto Itami and Kohji Itoh (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

B7-4 DESIGN OF CHANNEL CODING METHODS IN HV PLC COMMUNICATIONS
Aljo Mujcic, Nermin Suljanovic, Matej Zajc, Jurij F. Tasic (University of Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia)