Open AccessInvestigation on power line communication in aircrafts
Author(s) -
Degardin Virginie,
Laly Pierre,
Lienard Martine,
Degauque Pierre
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
iet communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.355
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1751-8636
pISSN - 1751-8628
DOI - 10.1049/iet-com.2013.0828
Subject(s) - line (geometry) , power line communication , test bench , transmission line , power (physics) , computer science , electric power transmission , software , communications system , electronic engineering , field (mathematics) , engineering , electrical engineering , telecommunications , embedded system , physics , programming language , pure mathematics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
Power line communication is envisaged for the future more electric aircraft and the scenario studied in this work deals with the cabin lighting system, since its tree‐shaped architecture is sufficiently complicated to be representative of many other aircraft harness configurations. The statistical characteristics of the propagation channels are deduced from the measurements made on a representative test bench, the experimental values of the insertion gain being also compared with those obtained from a theoretical model based on the multiconductor transmission line theory. Field‐programmable gate array‐based modems have been designed and the performance of links are described and compared with predicted values deduced from a software tool simulating the link.