Effect of cooperative communications on power consumption in smart grid

Author

Vural, Metin ; Kurt, Gunes Karabulut

Author_Institution

Elektron. ve Haberlesme Muhendisligi Bolumu, Istanbul Teknik Univ., İstanbul, Turkey

fYear

2013

fDate

24-26 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Improvement in wireless communication and smart grid systems create an important machine to machine market potential. Smart grids allow controlling energy distribution and power requirements without human intervention by using smart meters. There are some requirements in communication protocol and network design to build smart grids machine to machine communication. Compared to other wireless communication systems, ZigBee is ideal for smart grid systems because of consuming less power and supporting mesh networks. In this paper, bit error rate performance evaluations are made for node to node test scenario for ZigBee to see ZigBee performance for smart grid applications. Moreover to exemplify different power consumption requirements for diverse applications, 3 service types are defined and corresponding power consumptions are analyzed for direct communication, decode & forward and amplify & forward techniques in cooperative communication systems.

Keywords

Zigbee; amplify and forward communication; cooperative communication; decode and forward communication; error statistics; power consumption; protocols; smart meters; smart power grids; wireless mesh networks; ZigBee; amplify & forward technique; bit error rate performance evaluation; communication network design; communication protocol; cooperative communication; decode & forward technique; energy distribution control; machine to machine communication; machine to machine market potential; mesh network; node to node test; power consumption; power requirement control; smart grid; smart meter; wireless communication; AWGN; Bit error rate; MATLAB; Mathematical model; Smart grids; Zigbee; ZigBee; amplify and forward; cooperative relay; decode and forward; smart grid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2013 21st

Conference_Location

Haspolat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5562-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5561-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIU.2013.6531330

Filename

6531330