Han Vinck: Research in Powerline Communications

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Project:

Cooperation on Networking and Powerline Communications (Alliander, 2011-2015)

Main focus on: attenuation, noise models, standards and communication methods (OFDM)

First contributions:

ISPLC 2012, Beijing:

Cooperative Multihop Power Line Communications,

Lutz Lampe and A.J. Han Vinck

Selected Subcarriers QPSK-OFDM Transmission Schemes to Combat Frequency Disturbances

Victor N. Papilayay, Thokozani Shongwe*, A. J. Han Vinck and Hendrik. C. Ferreira*

Summary of our activities:

2013 Co-Chair ISLC 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa

2010- September 22-23

Workshop on Power Line Communications and its Applications in Networking and Smart-Grid

2008-2010: BMBF financed cooperation with Prof. Ferreira in Johannesburg, South Africa

2007: keynote speaker at ISPLC2008 in Jeju, South Korea, see presentation)

2007: steering committee chairman for the IEEE-ISPLC

2006: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, VOL. 24, no. 7, July 2006

Guest Editorial Power Line Communications

2006: received the 1^st ISPLC achievement award in Orlando

2003-2007 European project: COST 289, Spectrum and Power Efficient Broadband Communications

2002: Chairman Communications division of the institute CRIS

2001: Home-net-to-Run: EU project (Bravissimo)

1997: demonstration of working modem at CBit in Hannover

1997: Organization of the first Conference on Powerline Communications ISPLC1997 in Essen, Germany

1997: Nuon worst case scenario measurements (6 months)

1995: network characterization in Amsterdam (3 months)

1994: Workshop on Communication over Powerlines, Essen

1993: RWE study for feasibility (6 months)

Journal contributions.

On Cooperative Coding for Narrowband PLC Networks

AEÜ, (AEUE ) (2011), doi:10.1016/j.aeue.2011

Lutz Lampea, A.J. Han Vinck

Constructing Coset Codes With Optimal Same-Symbol Weight for Detecting Narrowband Interference in M-FSK Systems

IEEE Transactions on Information theory, December 2010, pp. 6347-6353

Versfeld, D. J. J. Vinck, A. J. H. Ridley, J. N. Ferreira, H. C.

„Combined Spectral Shaping Codes and OFDM Modulation for Narrowband Interference Channels,”

SAIEE special issue journal, 2008

K. Ouahada, H.C. Ferreira, A.J. Han Vinck, A.J. Snijders and T.G. Swart

“Permutation Trellis Codes,”

IEEE Tr. On Communications, pp. 1782-1789, November 2005,

H.C. Ferriera, A.J. Han Vinck, T.G. Swart and I. de Beer.

“Coding and Signal Space Diversity for a Class of Fading and Impulsive Noise Channels,”

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 2004 , pp. 887-895.

(Jurgen Haering and A J Han Vinck)

Power Lines Communications: State of the Art and Future Trends,

IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2003, pp. 34-40.

(N. Pavlidou, A.J. Han Vinck, J. Yazdani and B. Honary)

Powerline Communications and Applications,

Guest editorial, International Journal of Communication Systems,

June 2003, pp. 357-361, Wiley.

(Niovi Pavlidou, H. Latchman, A.J. Han Vinck, R. Newman)

Iterative Decoding of Codes over Complex Numbers for Impulsive Noise Channels,

IEEE Tr. on Information theory, May 2003, pp. 1251-1260.

(Jürgen Häring and A.J. Han Vinck)

Performance Bounds for Optimum and Suboptimum Reception under Class-A Impulsive Noise,

Jürgen Häring and A.J. Han Vinck,

IEEE Transactions on Communications, July 2002, pp. 1130-1136.

Summary of Contributions at ISPLC 1997-2001,

ISPLC2001, Malmö, pp. 383-413

Coded Modulation for Power Line Communications,

AEÜ Journal, 2000, pp. 45-49, Jan 2000

                        Power Line Communication“, H. Ferreira, H. Grove, O. Hooijen and A.J. Han Vinck,
                        Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Wiley, New York, Edited by John
                        Webster, pp. 706-716, 1999.

"Channel Model for the Residential Power Circuit used as a Digital Communications Medium",

IEEE Trans. on EMC, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 331-336, November 1998.

"On the Channel Capacity of the Residential Power Circuit used as a Digital Communication Medium",

IEEE Comm. Letters, pp. 267-268, October 1998.