
Improved transmission speeds are predicted with the evolution of PLC technolo-
gies, as indicated in Table 5.3.
Architecture of the Physical and Data Link Layers of HomePlug AV
The latest technical developments by the HomePlug consortium have led to
improvements in HomePlug 1.0 performance in the new HomePlug AV version.
The architecture of the physical layer and of the data link layer has been modi-
fied while allowing interoperability with the HomePlug 1.0 devices in order to
authorize the master-slave mode.
Figure 5.4 illustrates the architecture of these two layers.
Two simultaneous functions are managed by these layers: management of
checks between the master and the slaves of the network, mainly to provide the vari-
ous QoS functionalities, and data management to encapsulate MAC and to make
data in the upper layers available.
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Table 5.3 Forecast Maximum Transmission
Speed of Various PLC Technologies
PLC TECHNOLOGY
FORECAST
TRANSMISSION
SPEED
HomePlug Turbo 85 Mbit/s
HomePlug AV 200 Mbit/s
Spidcom SPC200-e 220 Mbit/s
DS2 200 Mbit/s
Data
links
(Connection
Manager)
Figure 5.4 HomePlug AV architecture
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