Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance
CEPCA is registered within the EU, Japan and the U.S.

Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance

The Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA) is a non profit corporation established to promote and continuously advance high speed PLC technology to utilize and implement a new generation of consumer electronics products through the rapid, broad and open industry adoption of CEPCA Specifications.

Today there are many conflicting PLC technologies in the marketplace, and it is unrealistic to state that one technology rise an industry standard in the next year or two. However, CEPCA members see market opportunities for PLC now, in access, audio, and video applications. The CEPCA specification is a tool, insurance to minimize the risk of product returns (or power company service calls). By standardizing PLC technology, manufacturers can simply require their PLC vendor to embed the lightweight CEPCA smart coexistence specification in its chips.

Mission & Purpose

The Alliance encourages the rapid, broad and open industry adoption of specifications developed by the organization to promote and continuously advance high speed PLC technology to utilize and implement a new generation of consumer electronics products. This goal will be furthered through the pursuit of the activities set forth below:

Development of specifications enabling the coexistence
- Between in-home PLC Systems
- Between Access PLC Systems and in-home PLC Systems
Incorporate the CEPCA specification into international standards.
Promotion of high speed PLC technologies in order to achieve world-wide adoption thereof.

Click on the below links to learn more about the Technology, Scope and Objectives of the Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance.

Introduction to the Alliance, Michael Stelts - September, 2005 (.ppt, 465Kb)
CEPCA Overview or 中文信息!, Michael Stelts - March, 2006 (.pps, 550Kb)
Frequently Asked Questions (.pdf)

For more information, please contact CEPCA Administration

History and Achievement

June 2005	CEPCA created the basic coexistence function
September 2005	Basic coexistence test was performed
October 2005	CEPCA and UPA started the collaboration to unify the coexistence specification
June 2006	CEPCA Coexistence specification was submitted to ETSI WI20
July 2006	CEPCA and UPA collaborated proposal was submitted to ETSI WI20
June 2007	CEPCA/UPA proposal was submitted to IEEE-P1901
December 2007	The modified proposal by CEPCA/SiConnect/HomePlug was submitted to IEEE-P1901
December 2008	The modified proposal which include the coexistence with G.hn was submitted to IEEE-P1901 and passed the confirmation vote

Whitepaper & Presentations

The Inter-PHY Protocol (IPP): A Simple Coexistence Protocol for Shared Media - Stefano Galli, Akio Kurobe, Masato Ohura, Panasonic Corporation

Abstract: The power line (PL) is a shared medium, so that PL devices deployed on the same PL network must share the available capacity. Since there are today several incompatible technologies in the market and no available standard, it is expected that these different technologies will continue to be deployed for some time thus giving rise to the necessity of adopting coexistence mechanisms, i.e. mechanisms allowing non-interoperable devices to efficiently share channel resources. This problem has seldom been addressed in the literature and the goal of this contribution is to fill this gap. A simple coexistence mechanism is here presented and its performances assessed via simulations. A particular version of this algorithm has been proposed to the IEEE P1901 and to the ITU-T SG15/Q4 G.9960 (G.hn) Working Groups.
The Inter-PHY Protocol (IPP): A Simple Co-Existence Protocol - Dr. Stefano Galli, Lead Scientist, Panasonic Corporation, at IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications, Dresden, Germany, Mar. 31 2009

Events

CEPCA is a Supporting Organization for 2009 CONNECTIONS™ Events

CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase	CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit -Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 2-4, 2009	November 4, 2009
Santa Clara, CA	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Santa Clara Convention Center	Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre