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Power Line Communications and Noise

Power Line Communications and Noise is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of power line communications in smart grid applications, addressing topics such as impulsive noise, broadband channel modeling, spectrum balancing, and the impact of multipath effects on OFDM systems. It also explores techniques for noise mitigation and optimization of digital subscriber lines in the context of power line communications.

  • Power Line Communications
  • Smart Grid
  • Impulsive Noise
  • Broadband
  • Channel Modeling
  • Spectrum Balancing
  • Digital Subscriber Lines
  • Multipath Effects
  • OFDM Systems
  • Noise Mitigation
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Power Line Communications and Noise

Which countries lead Power Line Communications and Noise research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (961 and 354 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 961 works
  2. 2 United States 354 works
  3. 3 India 323 works
  4. 4 Brazil 293 works
  5. 5 Germany 159 works
  6. 6 Japan 122 works
  7. 7 Italy 95 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 94 works
  9. 9 South Korea 81 works
  10. 10 France 80 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 37.5%United States: 13.8%India: 12.6%Brazil: 11.4%6 others listed: 24.6%38%largest
China961 · 37.5%United States354 · 13.8%India323 · 12.6%Brazil293 · 11.4%6 others listed631 · 24.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Power Line Communications and Noise research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Power Line Communications and Noise research, followed by China Southern Power Grid (China) and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 41 works
  2. 2 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 40 works
  3. 3 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 34 works
  4. 4 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 24 works
  5. 5 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 24 works
  6. 6 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 23 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 21 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Electric (China)China 20 works
  9. 9 Southeast UniversityChina 20 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Power Line Communications and Noise?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Power Line Communications and Noise include Lídia Morawska, Frede Blaabjerg and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Power Line Communications and Noise?

The most cited paper in Power Line Communications and Noise is "Congestion avoidance and control" (Van L. Jacobson, 1995), with 5,334 citations. Next come "A Statistical Model for Indoor Multipath Propagation" (3,410) and "Perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ)-a new method for speech quality assessment of telephone networks and codecs" (3,235).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Congestion avoidance and control Van L. Jacobson · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 11 Jan 1995 5,334
2 A Statistical Model for Indoor Multipath Propagation Adel A. M. Saleh, Reinaldo A. Valenzuela · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Feb 1987 3,410
3 Perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ)-a new method for speech quality assessment of telephone networks and codecs Antony W. Rix, John G. Beerends, M. P. Hollier et al. Conference paper 13 Nov 2002 3,235
4 A Survey of Dynamic Spectrum Access Qing Zhao, Brian M. Sadler · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine May 2007 2,741
5 Personal Communication C. T. Bhunia · IETE Journal of Education Apr 1997 2,720
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Power Line Communications and Noise research done?

The largest centres of Power Line Communications and Noise research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Guangzhou (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 260 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 69 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 68 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 64 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 63 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 59 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 45 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 35 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 34 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 32 works
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Where is the best place to study Power Line Communications and Noise?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing Jiaotong University and Southeast University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 67.112.7%17.0×34 +4.8%
2Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 64.216.3%11.9×23 -24.8%
3Southeast UniversityChina 63.718.2%4.2×20 +4.7%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 63.719.9%2.1×18 +66.4%
5University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 63.212.2%6.8×24 +90.2%
6Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 60.424.4%3.8×9 +114.7%
7Xidian UniversityChina 58.615.3%7.0×16 +46.5%
8Tsinghua UniversityChina 56.715.9%2.1×16 +24.7%
9Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 52.817.7%2.1×12 +67.4%
10Technische Universität BraunschweigGermany 51.817.0%12.4×8 -0.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Power Line Communications and Noise, country by country

Is Power Line Communications and Noise research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Power Line Communications and Noise as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Power Line Communications and Noise over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Power Line Communications and Noise10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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