Experimental Analysis and Modeling of Energy Consumption Behaviour for MIMO PLC Modems

Abstract

This paper presents a detailed measurement study of the electrical energy consumption of commercial Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Power Line Communications (PLC) modems. Based on these measurements, we propose a linear model that can be used to predict the energy consumed for different communication states and different operation modes of MIMO PLC modems (idle, standby, transmission, reception, variable data rates and variable Ethernet frame sizes). A multiple regression analysis is used to estimate the model parameters. Such an experimental campaign provides valuable data for benchmarking the energy consumption of MIMO PLC modems and gives insights on which energy improvements can be evaluated.

Can 6LoPLC Enable Indoor IoT ?

“…While the former is fixed and used to power the electronic circuitry of the transceiver, the latter is dependent on the traffic load. Experiments involving different PLC devices concluded that although static energy dominates the consumption, dynamic energy can sometimes be up to 50% [8]. It was further observed during the measurements that data reception typically consumes less energy than transmission by 20%-25%.…”