Numerical assessment of propagation channel characteristics for future application of power line communication in aircraft

This paper deals with the numerical assessment of propagation channel characteristics for future application of power line communications technology in aircrafts. First of all, since exhaustive experimentation on in-board architecture are not possible, it is shown how numerical simulations on a given architecture possibly concerned by PLC implementation can help to the design of a test bench. Finally, numerical modeling of this test bench, once validated by comparison to generic measurements, enabled to fill a data base containing the propagation channel properties, to propose possible optimization of this channel in order to improve PLC performances on this architecture and to assess EMC aspects.