Power line communication in aircraft: Channel modelling and performance analysis

The work presented in this paper deals with the possibility of implementing a power line communication in aircraft. A tree-shaped architecture of a network has been simulated for determining the distribution of the transfer function between different points on the line. Comparison with results obtained on a real network has been performed. The performances of an OFDM link have been determined by introducing the channel transfer functions in a software tool simulating the communication.