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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2014
Stmicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
Oleg Logvinov, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Bo Zhang, Somerville, NJ (US);
Huijuan Liu, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Michael John Macaluso, Jackson, NJ (US);
James D. Allen, Rochester, NY (US);
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment is a powerline communications (PLC) apparatus including a communications interface that implements a first communication protocol including of a transceiver that communicates over an electrical power distribution wiring of a vehicle. The first communication protocol includes a powerline communications automotive network (PLCAN) delimiter type (DT) (PLCAN-DT), and a PLCAN variant length field in a frame control comprising payload length, a number of symbols used, a PHY block size, and a number of repetitions used, wherein broadcast addressing is used in the network to transmit messages.