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. 10.1% 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
- 10.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -11% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Power Line Communications and Noise research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (875 and 329 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 875 works
- 2 United States 329 works
- 3 India 309 works
- 4 Brazil 272 works
- 5 Germany 155 works
- 6 Japan 117 works
- 7 Italy 90 works
- 8 United Kingdom 88 works
- 9 France 78 works
- 10 South Korea 77 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.
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Which institutions lead Power Line Communications and Noise research?
By volume in 2022–2025, China Southern Power Grid (China) publishes the most Power Line Communications and Noise research, followed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and State Grid Corporation of China (China).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 37 works
- 2 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 32 works
- 3 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 30 works
- 4 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 23 works
- 5 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 23 works
- 6 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 22 works
- 7 Beihang UniversityChina 18 works
- 8 Shanghai Electric (China)China 18 works
- 9 Southeast UniversityChina 17 works
- 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 16 works
Who are the leading researchers in Power Line Communications and Noise?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Power Line Communications and Noise include H. Vincent Poor, A. S. Cerqueira and Mohamed‐Slim Alouini.
- 1 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
- 2 A. S. Cerqueira United States 6.8k citations
- 3 Mohamed‐Slim Alouini Saudi Arabia 5.9k citations
- 4 Xuemin Shen Canada 5.1k citations
- 5 Zhu Han United States 4.7k citations
- 6 Georgios B. Giannakis United States 4.6k citations
- 7 Andreas F. Molisch United States 4.3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Power Line Communications and Noise research done?
The largest centres of Power Line Communications and Noise research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Tokyo (Japan).
Where is the best place to study Power Line Communications and Noise?
Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina | 66.2 | 10.3% | 11.0× | 23 | -0.2% |
| 2 | Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 59.8 | 5.8% | 15.3× | 32 | -9.2% |
| 3 | Universidade Federal de Juiz de ForaBrazil | 52.4 | 0.9% | 17.2× | 15 | +206.3% |
| 4 | North China Electric Power UniversityChina | 48.2 | 3.8% | 9.9× | 22 | -39.1% |
| 5 | Southeast UniversityChina | 48.1 | 10.4% | 3.7× | 17 | +31.1% |
| 6 | Technische Universität BraunschweigGermany | 47.7 | 6.0% | 11.6× | 8 | +26.6% |
| 7 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina | 47.3 | 7.1% | 6.1× | 23 | -21.3% |
| 8 | Xidian UniversityChina | 46.1 | 8.6% | 6.3× | 16 | -12.7% |
| 9 | Universidade Federal do ABCBrazil | 43.6 | 0.0% | 18.6× | 9 | +147.5% |
| 10 | Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil | 43.2 | 0.0% | 8.7× | 12 | +252.7% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Power Line Communications and Noise research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 11% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Power Line Communications and Noise.
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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.