WiMAX for smart grid last-mile communications: TOS traffic mapping and performance assessment

Author

Gomez-Cuba, Felipe ; Asorey-Cacheda, R. ; Gonzalez-Castano, F. Javier

Author_Institution

GRADIANT, Univ. de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper addresses specific smart grid communication requirements. It considers a last-mile network based on an IEEE 802.16 cell deployed to cover a group of customers and serve their Energy Services Interfaces. Based on the communication requirements of smart grid last-mile applications and entities, we propose a traffic priority model and setup for the WiMAX air interface. Finally, we evaluate the proposal using a discrete-event simulator.

Keywords

WiMax; carrier transmission on power lines; discrete event simulation; smart power grids; telecommunication traffic; IEEE 802.16 cell-based last-mile network; TOS traffic mapping; WiMAX air interface; customers group; discrete-event simulator; energy services interfaces; performance assessment; smart grid last-mile communication; traffic priority model; Bandwidth; Delay; Mission critical systems; Quality of service; Real-time systems; Smart grids; WiMAX; Metropolitan area networks; Smart grids; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT Europe), 2012 3rd IEEE PES International Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Berlin

ISSN

2165-4816

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2595-0

Electronic_ISBN

2165-4816

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGTEurope.2012.6465616

Filename

6465616