A survey of technical challenges in wireless machine-to-machine communication for smart grids

Shaik, Subhani; Shi, Huaizhou; Cobben, J.F.G.

doi:10.1109/upec.2015.7339879

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“…It introduces various requirements into the system. Lots of researches discussed the requirements/indexes of CPS [4,[41][42][43][44]. We summarize and classify these requirements and the summary is shown in Figure 5.…”

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A Comprehensive Technological Survey on Dependable Self-Managing CPS: The Decade of Researches on Correctness and Dependability

Zhou¹,

Hou²,

Zhang³

et al. 2017

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Though Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) become very popular in last the decade, dependability of CPS is still a critical issue and related survey is rare. We try to spell out the jigsaw of technologies and figure out the technical trends of dependable self-managing CPS. This survey first recalls the motivation and the similar concepts. By analyzing four generic architectures, we summarize the common characteristics and related assurance technologies, and propose a more generic environment-in-loop processing flow of CPS and a formal interaction flow between physical space and cyber space. Further, the similarity between correctness and dependability is formally analyzed and the new five research questions of dependable self-managing CPS are presented. Then we review the critical technologies and related correctness verification & validation (V&V) methods, the architectures for dependable self-managing CPS. Further, the detail dependability management and V&V technologies are surveyed, which covers the areas of running-time fault management methods and whole life cycle V&V technologies, maintenance and available tool sets. For holistic CPS development, Modeling techniques and MDE (model driven engineering) based V&V methods are analyzed in detail. Then we complete the jigsaw of technologies and figure out the missing part. Further, we propose the technical challenges and the further direction. To our best knowledge, this is the first comprehensive survey on dependable self-managing CPS development and evaluation.

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Section: Common Characteristics Of Cpsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comprehensive Technological Survey on Dependable Self-Managing CPS: The Decade of Researches on Correctness and Dependability

Zhou¹,

Hou²,

Zhang³

et al. 2017

Preprint

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“…(C5) Harsh propagation environments: SMs and eSMs located in basements experience low CQI [25]. This may prevent some AMI applications from attaining required rates under standard CQI-based scheduling schemes.…”

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Introducing the Latest 3GPP Specifications and their Potential for Future AMI Applications

Koumadi¹,

Park²,

Myoung³

2016

KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy

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Despite the exponential throughput improvement in mobile communications systems, their ability to satisfy requirements of stateof-the-art and future applications of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is still under investigation. Challenges are mainly due to the inadequacy of third generation partnership project (3GPP) networks to support large amounts of devices simultaneously, while the number of AMI end-devices and the frequency of their data transmission increase with new AMI-based applications. In this introductory survey, innovative and future AMI applications and their communication requirements are first reviewed. Then, we identify challenges of 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) in enabling future AMI applications. More importantly, the latest improvements to LTE-A standard release 12 and 13 are reviewed and analyzed with regards to their potential to improve the quality of LTE-enabled AMI. It is found that 3GPP enhancements on machine type communications (MTC) standards will significantly enhance AMI communications. Beyond MTC specifications, non-MTC-specific enhancements such as carrier aggregation and multi-connectivity for user equipment will also contribute greatly to improving reliability and availability of AMI devices. The paper's focus is towards improved backhaul support for innovative and future AMI applications, beyond traditional automatic meter reading.

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“…Different wireless communication technologies used for smart grids are presented in [12][13][14][15][16]. Current cellular mobile networks can be employed to carry the large simultaneous data collected from AMI end points (smart meters) but with congestion and competition at the Radio Access Networks (RANs) [17]. This congestion will deteriorate the mobile network performance in form of increasing number of packet loss, unbearable delay which greatly affects the required services and QoS for the mobile users in the network.…”

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A Grouped System Architecture for Smart Grids Based AMI Communications Over LTE

Elmesalawy¹,

Ali²

2015

IJWMN

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A smart grid based Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), is a technology that enables the utilities to monitor and control the electricity consumption through a set of various smart meters (SMs) connected via a two way communication infrastructure. One of the key challenges for smart grids is how to connect a large number of devices. On the other hand, 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE), the latest standard for mobile communications, was developed to provide stable service performance and higher data rates for a large number of mobile users. Therefore, LTE is considered a promising solution for wide area connectivity for SMs. In this paper, a grouped hierarchal architecture for SMs communications over LTE is introduced. Then, an efficient grouped scheduling technique is proposed for SMs transmissions over LTE. The proposed architecture efficiently solves the overload problem due to AMI traffic and guarantees a full monitoring and control for energy consumption. The results of our suggested solution showed that LTE can serve better for smart grids based AMI with particular grouping and scheduling scheme. In addition, the presented technique can able to be used in urban areas having high density of SMs.

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A survey of technical challenges in wireless machine-to-machine communication for smart grids

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

A Comprehensive Technological Survey on Dependable Self-Managing CPS: The Decade of Researches on Correctness and Dependability

A Comprehensive Technological Survey on Dependable Self-Managing CPS: The Decade of Researches on Correctness and Dependability

Introducing the Latest 3GPP Specifications and their Potential for Future AMI Applications

A Grouped System Architecture for Smart Grids Based AMI Communications Over LTE

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