Communication protocol for residential electrical demand response in home devices

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A smart home networking simulation for energy saving

“…Abstract i Figure The household renewable energy management in the context of smart grid [4] 11 Figure 4 The concept of smart home [16] Figure 5 Smart home based on LonWorks networking pattern [32] Figure 6 Network topology of smart home via power line [38] Figure 7 The architecture of a Bluetooth-based smart home via remote control [42] Tables Table 1 Comparison of PLC technologies Table Technical comparison between Bluetooth and ZigBee [49] Table 3 A summary of the network related parameters Table 4 Energy cost of the central controller in data transmission over the RBDS network Table 5 The network overhead of Flooding with CI (including the controller) Table 6 Interface setting of Flooding/AODV/ZigBee routing for multiple networks Table 7 Interface numbering for different scenarios in simulations Table 8 PHY layer parameters based after calibration [67] List of Acronyms 1 Introduction…”

“…To model packet transmission in the RBDS network, we adopt the RBDS MAC/PHY protocol stack implemented in [67]. The radio propagation model at the RBDS PHY layer…”

“…In addition, Omni-Antenna is chosen for its ability to transmit with equal power in all directions for most wireless communications during simulations as long as the density of nodes is not intentionally restricted to a fixed location or direction. The antenna height of the RBDS message sender is set to 210m for data transmission whereas the antenna height of the central controller in a smart home is set to 1.5m in simulations [67].…”

“…In the RBDS network, the emphasis is placed on the parameter settings of the MAC/PHY layer and the propagation model intended for issues of burst errors due to large scale fading since it addresses the data communication at a considerable distance. The section on the RBDS network configuration refers to the annotation explained by the author in Chapter 5 and Appendix C in [67] and the configuration of parameters at the PHY layer is summarized in Table 8. There is no special requirement in terms of smart home networking simulations since our major focus is placed inside the house.…”

“…Scenario of RBDS message delivery in smart homesAs for the distance between the coordinate of the RBDS sender and the central controller located in a smart home, the author of the RBDS implementation demonstrated in simulation that devices up to 140 km from the transmitter are capable of receiving RBDS message 30 bytes long in size with a high reception probability of 99.5%[67]. To increase the probability of reception, RBDS messages could be transmitted multiple times (i.e.…”