A Methodology to Evaluate Wireless Technologies for the Smart Grid

Author

Souryal, Michael ; Gentile, Camillo ; Griffith, David ; Cypher, David ; Golmie, Nada

Author_Institution

Emerging & Mobile Network Technol. Group, Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

4-6 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

356

Lastpage

361

Abstract

This paper presents a methodology for assessing the suitability of various wireless technologies for meeting the communication requirements of Smart Grid applications. It describes an approach for translating application requirements to link traffic characteristics, determining the transmission range or coverage area of a wireless technology, and modeling the link layer to obtain performance measures such as message reliability, delay, and throughput. To illustrate the use of this approach, we analyze the performance of three representative application use cases over an IEEE 802.11 link.

Keywords

smart power grids; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 link; coverage area; link traffic characteristics; message delay; message reliability; message throughput; smart grid applications; transmission range; wireless technologies; Analytical models; Communication system security; Fading; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Signal to noise ratio; Smart grids; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2010 First IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gaithersburg, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6510-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMARTGRID.2010.5622067

Filename

5622067