Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.

Dora S.p.a.

Emile Saccani

Luca Casone

Danilo Blasi

Andrea Piglione

Lorenzo Guerrieri

Paola Bisaglia

Alessandro Lasciandare

Arturo Lotito

A device includes an interface and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Medium Access Control (MAC) circuitry coupled to the interface. The TDMA MAC circuitry detects a beacon in a frame having a defined frame duration and determines a frame compensation value based on a start time of the frame, a reference start time of the frame, and a number of elapsed frames. A current frame duration value is determined based on the frame compensation value and the defined frame duration.

System, method and article for adaptive framing for TDMA MAC protocols

The method transmits a long packet of digital data over a poly-phase power line affected by impulsive noise synchronous with phase voltages. Instead of using very complicated coding schemes, starting from the knowledge of the typical power line scenario, useful information is transmitted where noise synchronous with the main signal is absent. Time-intervals of a known or estimated duration during which the poly-phase power line is affected by impulsive noise are determined, and dummy data during the time-intervals, and useful data during other time-intervals free from impulsive noise, are transmitted.

Method of transmitting a packet of digital data over a poly-phase power line affected by impulsive noise

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Emile Saccani