High Data Rate Network Using Automotive Powerline Communication

This paper deals with automotive power line communication for high data rate. Today´s automobiles contain many complex systems, each one incorporates a large number of electronic control units. These buses increase the number of cables and interferences. In order to reduce the total amount of cables and EMC, a potential solution is powerline communications (PLC), using multi-carrier modulation. This technique offers both high data rate and good adequacy with channel properties. In the present work, the PLC techniques has been tested in the automotive environment, and the first results seem to be very promising. An optimized modem has been simulated to reach the expected data rate.