Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for message authentication, in particular in case of low of transmission or storage capacities. The present invention further provides corresponding devices for generating or sending authenticated messages and for receiving or retrieving authenticated messages as well as a system comprising such devices. In an embodiment, the method may comprise (a) preparing a data block having an uncompressed length; (b) compressing the data block so that the data block has a compressed length smaller than the uncompressed length; (c) determining an available length from at least the compressed length and a maximum length of a data frame; (d) calculating a message authentication code, MAC, from at least the data block, having a MAC length not greater than the available length; and (e) creating the data frame, comprising the data block and the MAC.
Abstract:
A communication element (41-43) is disclosed for use in conjunction with a communications system (100) for transmitting at least one control signal to and/or receiving at least one message from at least one power electronics module (11-19). The communication element (41-43) comprises a plurality of antennas (51-53, 54-56, 57-59) capable of wireless communication. The communication element (41-43) is configured to transmit the at least one control signal to and/or receive the at least one message from the at least one power electronics module (11-19) by means of the plurality of antennas (51-53, 54-56, 57-59) in accordance with at least one beamforming method.
Abstract:
A method (100) of route selection in a wireless communication system and a control system (40) is provided. The method includes selecting a route between a first node (1) and a second node (2) and comprises: - evaluating (110) a plurality of possible routes (R1, R2, R3, R4), at least one route (R2, R3, R4) including a third node (3, 4) between the first and the second node; and - selecting (160) the route that has the lowest latency among the possible routes. Especially the method (100) includes: - selecting (120) parameter settings for each link of the possible routes, said selecting (120) comprising; - selecting (130) the length of the cyclic prefix, - evaluating (140) combinations of the selected cyclic prefix and different settings of the at least one further parameter of the physical layer; - selecting (150) the parameter settings that has lowest estimated latency and fulfils at least one communication quality criterion.
Abstract:
A communications network for communication between at least one power electronics element and at least one control unit is disclosed. At least one transmit/receive unit of the communications network is configured to receive at least one signal from an upstream direction, and evaluate if the at least one signal is correctly received. In case the at least one signal is correctly received, the at least one transmit/receive unit is configured to forward,in an allocated first time slot, the at least one signal to a plurality of transmit/receive units in a downstream direction, and receive, in an allocated second time slot, a plurality of signals from the plurality of transmit/receive units as a response of the forwarded at least one signal.
Abstract:
In order to transmit a combination of modulated analog and digital signals in which a digital data signal (D 1 ) is modulated by means of singlecarrier quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) or by means of multicarrier Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) modulation and an analog signal (A 1 ) is modulated by means of single side band modulation (SSB), a singlecarrier or multicarrier quadrature amplitude base modulation of the digital data signal (D 1 ) and an SSB base modulation of the analog signal (A 1 ), is performed. Corresponding components of the modulated and optionally upsampled digital ( u m I , o m I , u m Q ,O m Q )and analog ( s m I , s m Q ) signals are added, and a carrier frequency modulation (4) of the added components is performed. In a receiver, the same carrier frequency demodulator (8) is used for the superimposed modulated analog and digital signals, which then are base band demodulated separately (5, 6, 7). The invention reduces the total computational effort for modulating the digital and analog signals by performing the carrier frequency modulation or demodulation only once.
Abstract:
There is provided mechanisms for frequency offset estimation in a wireless communication network for power grid control. The wireless communication network employs time based scheduling of packets. A method is performed by a packet receiver in the wireless communication network. The method comprises receiving a packet from a packet transmitter. The packet comprises a preamble. The preamble is composed of samples of a single OFDM symbol. The preamble has a CP defined by a repetition of samples from an end- portion of the preamble. The preamble, except for the CP, is free from any repeated sequence of samples. The method comprises determining a sequence of similarity measure values (ie. correlation) between the CP of the preamble and the end-portion of the preamble. The method comprises applying a low-pass filter to the sequence of similarity measure values, resulting in a filtered sequence of similarity measure values. The method comprises performing frequency offset estimation on the filtered sequence of similarity measure values.
Abstract:
There is provided mechanisms for packet detection in a wireless communication network for power grid control. The wireless communication network employs time based scheduling of packets. A method is performed by a packet receiver in the wireless communication network. The method comprises receiving a packet from a packet transmitter. The packet comprises a preamble. The preamble is composed of a single OFDM symbol and represented by a sequence of samples. At least part of the preamble is received within a packet detection window (contention based). The method comprises performing packet detection in order to find start of the packet only on those samples received within the packet detection window.
Abstract:
A communications network (10-15) for communication between at least one power electronics element (20, 21, 28) and at least one control unit (30) is disclosed. According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, the communications network (10-15) can be described as a communications network (10-15) having parts or portions thereof employing multi-hop and/or hybrid communication.
Abstract:
The present invention is concerned with Cosine Modulated Filter Band modulation, in particular for a matrix equalizer for equalising a modulated signal carrying digital data, wherein the signal is modulated using a CMF6 and transmitted through a transmission channel having a channel impulse response c(t), wherein the matrix equalizer comprises: matrix coefficients W(i) determined based on the discrete-time matrix channel impulse response C(i) that is determined from the channel impulse response c(t); wherein the matrix equalizer is configured to equalize the modulated signal in order to reduce signal distortion introduced by the transmission channel. The present invention also concerns a method for equalising the CMFB modulated signal.
Abstract:
The present invention is concerned with Cosine Modulated Filter Band modulation, in particular for a matrix equalizer for equalising a modulated signal carrying digital data, wherein the signal is modulated using a CMFB and transmitted through a transmission channel having a channel impulse response c(t), wherein the matrix equalizer comprises: matrix coefficients W(i) determined based on the discrete-time matrix discrete-time matrix channel impulse response C(i) that is determined from the channel impulse response c(t); wherein the matrix equalizer is configured to equalize the modulated signal in order to reduce signal distortion introduced by the transmission channel. The present invention also concerns a method for equalising the CMFB modulated signal.