Impact of System Components on an Automotive PLC Channel

Author

Oberleithner, Elisabeth ; Hanik, Norbert

Author_Institution

Inst. for Commun. Eng., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Automotive Power Line Communication (PLC) is a promising technology that enables data transmission without the need of dedicated, heavy data communication lines. This way, it allows for reducing the weight and wiring complexity of a vehicle. This paper addresses the modelling of an in-vehicle PLC channel and gives a additional understanding of the impact single system components have on the specific automotive PLC transmission characteristic. It is shown that an automotive PLC channel is mainly characterized by the car battery, number of branch (tap) lines and the loads introduced by the various electrical control units. The heoretical results are compared with measurement data in order to validate the simulation model.

Keywords

automotive components; carrier transmission on power lines; data communication; mobile radio; automotive PLC channel; automotive PLC transmission characteristic; automotive power line communication; branch lines; car battery; data transmission; electrical control units; heavy data communication lines; impact single system components; in-vehicle PLC channel; system components; vehicle weight reduction; vehicle wiring complexity; Automotive engineering; Batteries; Impedance; Load modeling; Power cables; Propagation losses; Wiring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2014 IEEE 80th

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCFall.2014.6966005

Filename

6966005