TY - JOUR
T1 - AFAR
T2 - A robust and delay-constrained communication framework for smart grid applications
AU - Kim, Kangho
AU - Kim, Hwantae
AU - Jung, Jongtack
AU - Kim, Hwangnam
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education ( NRF-2013R1A1A2010388 ) and “Human Resources program in Energy Technology” of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) granted financial resource from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea (no. 20154030200610 )
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/11/14
Y1 - 2015/11/14
N2 - The existing electrical grid is now experiencing a revolutionary change to a new paradigm, i.e., smart grid, due to the development of information and communication technologies. Communications among smart grid components such as sensors, intelligent electronic devices (IED), and smart meters of automatic metering infrastructure (AMI) are some of the key components to successfully build smart grid. To reduce installation costs and spatial limits, wireless communications are considered as effective communication techniques in smart grid. However, severe wireless interference due to the electromagnetic wave generated by electronic devices, and strict requirements of smart grid applications such as delay-constraint, short delay, reliability, and scalability are making existing network protocols inappropriate for smart grid applications. In this paper, we propose AFAR to provide robust and delay-constrained communication services to smart grid applications while satisfying their requirements successfully. This paper includes a detailed description of the framework, mathematical modeling, OPNET simulation, and co-simulation between OpenDSS and OPNET to evaluate AFAR under the specific smart grid application scenario.
AB - The existing electrical grid is now experiencing a revolutionary change to a new paradigm, i.e., smart grid, due to the development of information and communication technologies. Communications among smart grid components such as sensors, intelligent electronic devices (IED), and smart meters of automatic metering infrastructure (AMI) are some of the key components to successfully build smart grid. To reduce installation costs and spatial limits, wireless communications are considered as effective communication techniques in smart grid. However, severe wireless interference due to the electromagnetic wave generated by electronic devices, and strict requirements of smart grid applications such as delay-constraint, short delay, reliability, and scalability are making existing network protocols inappropriate for smart grid applications. In this paper, we propose AFAR to provide robust and delay-constrained communication services to smart grid applications while satisfying their requirements successfully. This paper includes a detailed description of the framework, mathematical modeling, OPNET simulation, and co-simulation between OpenDSS and OPNET to evaluate AFAR under the specific smart grid application scenario.
KW - Communication framework
KW - Field area network
KW - Geographic forwarding
KW - Home area network
KW - Smart grid
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941129013&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.comnet.2015.08.001
DO - 10.1016/j.comnet.2015.08.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84941129013
SN - 1389-1286
VL - 91
SP - 1
EP - 25
JO - Computer Networks
JF - Computer Networks
ER -
