The Y-Net protocol stack provides a set of advanced communication services enabling a standard, rapid and simple method of development for low cost command and control networking applications over the power line media using IT900A. The services provided by the Y-Net protocol stack enable developers to focus their efforts on the implementation of their applications, rather than on the communication and networking function.
The Y-Net stack provides high flexibility and an extensive range of modes and configurations for developing applications based on the most suitable network installation scenario requirements for that application. The Y-Net stack will support network installation scenarios varying from simple plug-and-play networks (Y-Net defaults) to highly secured networks.
The Y-Net protocol stack consists of the following:
➤ Physical (PHY) layer consisting of the physical interface to the power line media.
➤ Media access control (MAC) layer providing Y-Net stack interface for lower layer communication services.
➤ Network Layer (NL) providing Y-Net stack interface for advanced networking services such as ad-mission, routing and addressing.
- Plug & Play Network formation
- HomePlug Command & Control ready
- Selective Participation of Nodes
- Logical Network Creation
- Master-Slave and Peer-to-Peer Network Configurations
- Full Security Suite
- Dynamic Routing
- Multiple Network Topologies (Peer-to-Peer, Mesh*, Tree)
- Network integrity Detection and Recovery
- Network Parameter Recovery
➤ PLC optimized
➤ CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) channel access with Adaptive Back-off (patent pending)
➤ Adaptive rate control adaptation to channel quality
➤ Support for up to 1023 logical networks with up to 2047 nodes per network
➤ Acknowledged, unacknowledged and repetitive unacknowledged services (packet transmission and reception)
➤ Re-transmission mechanism
➤ Network diagnostics and analysis
➤ PLC optimized for high immunity to signal fading, various noise characteristics, impedance modulation and phase/frequency distortion
➤ Connectivity even in negative SNR levels
➤ Powerful Error Correction Code
➤ Clock recovery algorithm to allow low accuracy crystal
➤ DCSK (Differential Code Shift Keying) Yitran’s patented modulation technique provides extremely high reliability
➤ High in-phase and cross-phase reliability
➤ Forward short-block soft decoding error correction mechanism and CRC-16
➤ Complies with worldwide regulations (FCC, ARIB, EN50065-1, CENELEC)
➤ Data rates up to 500 Kbps FCC and ARIB, 150 Kbps in CENELEC bands