Open AccessPower line communication transfer function computation in real network configurations for performance analysis applications
Author(s) -
GonzálezSotres Luis,
Frías Pablo,
Mateo Carlos
Publication year - 2017
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.2016.0135
Subject(s) - computer science , power line communication , attenuation , network topology , topology (electrical circuits) , electronic engineering , voltage , computation , transmission line , line (geometry) , telecommunications network , power (physics) , electric power transmission , electric power system , telecommunications , electrical engineering , computer network , algorithm , mathematics , engineering , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , optics
Despite power line communication is considered a cost‐effective solution to communicate electronic devices across the power system, the performance of this technology is highly affected by physical channel factors such as the presence of noise and signal attenuation. Such phenomena are mainly determined by the characteristics of the electrical infrastructure as well as by the network topology. This study presents an analytical approach to systematically compute the signal attenuation between any pair of nodes in real electric power distribution network topologies based on transmission‐line theory and graph theory. The proposed methodology has been applied to obtain the attenuation matrix of two representative networks for low and medium voltage. In addition, the results have been used to analyse the communication performance of these networks, where the low voltage network shows better results due to the reduced number of nodes and network length. The conclusions of this study motivate the application of this methodology to power line communication networks planning.