Performance evaluation of future AMI applications in Smart Grid Neighborhood Area Networks

Ramírez, D. F.; Céspedes, Sandra; Becerra, Carlos; Lazo, Christian

doi:10.1109/colcomcon.2015.7152093

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“…SMs send periodic and/or on-demand meter readings to utilities or users for billing and other purposes. The average packet size is around 200 bytes and required transmission data rate is less than 128 kbps [6]. AMR is delay-tolerant and inter-reading time may span between one hour and one month.…”

Section: Automatic Meter Reading (Amr)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Automatic Meter Reading (Amr)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Latency tolerance is 100 ms only, with packet sizes around 210 bytes, and data rates between 10 and 100 kbps [6].…”

Section: Real-time Pricing (Rtp)mentioning

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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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“…Each service has different network requirements in terms of network capacity, delay delivery, etc. Previously, it was shown that it was not always feasible to deploy a single type of communications network to cover all the services of the AMI network, and a wireless heterogeneous network (WHN) was expected to be deployed instead [1][2][3][4][5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capacitated Multicommodity Flow Problem for Heterogeneous Smart Electricity Metering Communications Using Column Generation

2019

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This paper addresses the planning and deployment of wireless heterogeneous networks (WHNs) for smart metering, based on a cross-layer solution. We combine the constraints of the network layer that considers routing and flow demands at each link in the WHN, while at the same time, we account for the restrictions of the physical layer referred to the capacity of a short range technology when used in a multi-hop fashion. We propose a model based on a column generation approach to solve the capacitated multicommodity flow problem (CMCF); the model includes wireless links capacities, coverage, and cost. The work integrates the multi-hop routing of packets in a mesh network formed by smart meters and concentrators connected to a cellular network via base stations. The traffic of each link is represented in a multigraph with the occupation percentage, and we build a scalable routing tree on a georeferenced map to represent a real deployment. The results describe the behavior of the proposed model in terms of the traffic load per concentrator, the network coverage, and the reduction of energy consumption. We demonstrate that an infrastructure cost reduction is achieved with the inclusion of multi-hop short range technology, which reduces the number of smart meters that require a direct connection to cellular technology. The model guarantees 100% coverage of the smart meters analyzed in each scenario. The calculation time of the CMCF for advanced metering infrastructure (CMCF-AMI) based on the column generation algorithm as the population increases is reduced by 10%, and this is the expected return when the population is considerable.

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“…Power consumers receive also real time power pricing allowing them to have an www.ijacsa.thesai.org active role regarding their consumption patterns. AMI data traffic description provided in Table 1 was elaborated after consulting various research articles surveying smart grid services [10] [11].…”

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Performance Analysis of In-Network Caching in Content-Centric Advanced Metering Infrastructure

El¹,

Barouni²,

Ben³

2016

ijacsa

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Abstract-In-network caching is a key feature of contentcentric networking. It is however a relatively costly mechanism with hardware requirements besides placement/replication strategies elaboration. As content-centric networking is proposed in the literature to manage smart grid (SG) communications, we aim, in this research work, to investigate the cost effectiveness of in-network caching in this context. We consider, in particular, the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) service that comes into prominence since its outputs are imperative inputs of most smart grid applications. In this research work, AMI communication topology and data traffic are characterized. Corresponding simulation environment is then built. Thereafter, various placement and replacement strategies are compared in a simulation study to be further able to propose a suitable cache placement and replacement combination for AMI in Smart Grid.

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Performance evaluation of future AMI applications in Smart Grid Neighborhood Area Networks

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

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

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

Capacitated Multicommodity Flow Problem for Heterogeneous Smart Electricity Metering Communications Using Column Generation

Performance Analysis of In-Network Caching in Content-Centric Advanced Metering Infrastructure

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