Performance analysis of HomePlug 1.0 MAC with CSMA/CA

As demands for data communications among home/personal devices in home environments increase, various types of home-networking technologies have appeared. Among them, power line communication is one of the most promising wired home-networking technologies, because the existing power line facilities can be utilized for data transmission without deploying any new physical links. HomePlug 1.0 is the most popular power line communication technology, which has been standardized by the HomePlug power line alliance, and attempts to mitigate the effect of time- and frequency-varying channels by enhanced modulation and channel coding. Although HomePlug 1.0 has undergone field trials and simulations, its analytic model and performance was only conducted for throughput under saturation conditions. We propose a new analytic model to evaluate MAC throughput and delay of HomePlug 1.0 both under saturation and under normal traffic conditions. We verify our proposed model via simulations and evaluate the performance of HomePlug 1.0.