Publications de Christina Vlachou

Multi-Armed Bandit in Action: Optimizing Performance in Dynamic Hybrid Networks

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri, Christina Vlachou

Today's home networks are often composed of several technologies such as Wi-Fi or power-line communication (PLC). Yet, current network protocols rarely fully harness this diversity and use each technology for a specific, pre-defined role, for example, wire ...

2018

How CSMA/CA With Deferral Affects Performance and Dynamics in Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications (PLC) are becoming a key component in home networking, because they provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. The dominant MAC protocol for high data-rate PLC, the IEEE 1901, employs a CSMA/CA mechanism similar to the backoff ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

EMPoWER Hybrid Networks: Exploiting Multiple Paths over Wireless and ElectRical Mediums

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou, Sébastien Christophe Henri

Several technologies, such as WiFi, Ethernet and power-line communications (PLC), can be used to build residential and enterprise networks. These technologies often co-exist; most networks use WiFi, and buildings are readily equipped with electrical wires ...

2016

Analysis and Enhancement of CSMA/CA With Deferral in Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are employed in home networking to provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. The IEEE 1901, the MAC protocol for power-line networks, employs a CSMA/CA protocol similar to that of 802.11, but is substantially more complex, wh ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Measuring, Modeling and Enhancing Power-Line Communications

Christina Vlachou

Power-line communication (PLC) is a technology that has become very popular, as it offers easy and high-throughput connectivity in local networks. Although it is widely adopted in hybrid PLC/WiFi networks and commercially successful, PLC has received littl ...

EPFL2016

Electri-Fi Your Data: Measuring and Combining Power-Line Communications with WiFi

Patrick Thiran, Christina Vlachou, Sébastien Christophe Henri

Power-line communication (PLC) is widely used as it offers high data-rates and forms a network over electrical wiring, an existing and ubiquitous infrastructure. PLC is increasingly being deployed in hybrid networks that combine multiple technologies, the ...

2015

Performance Analysis of MAC for Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

We investigate the IEEE 1901 MAC protocol, the dominant protocol for high data rate power-line communications. 1901 employs a CSMA/CA mechanism similar to – but much more complex than – the backoff mechanism of 802.11. Because of this extra complexity, and ...

2014

On the MAC for Power-Line Communications: Modeling Assumptions and Performance Tradeoffs

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are becoming a key component in home networking. The dominant MAC protocol for high data-rate power-line communications, IEEE 1901, employs a CSMA/CA mechanism similar to the backoff process of 802.11. Existing performance evaluat ...

2014

Analyzing and Boosting the Performance of Power-Line Communication Networks

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are employed in home networking to provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. IEEE 1901, the MAC protocol for power-line networks, employs a CSMA/CA protocol similar to that of 802.11, but is substantially more complex, which ...

2014

Fairness of MAC protocols: IEEE 1901 vs. 802.11

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

The MAC layer of the IEEE 1901 standard for power line communications employs a CSMA/CA method similar to, but more complex than, this of IEEE 802.11 for wireless communications. The differences between these protocols raise questions such as which one per ...

IEEE2013