{"title":"Design for reliable and self-sustaining neighborhood area network in smart grid","authors":"Feng Ye, Y. Qian, R. Hu","doi":"10.1109/DRCN.2015.7149021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A neighborhood area network (NAN) is part of the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in smart grid. A NAN is considered as the last-mile connection in AMI from the metering data management system (MDMS) to the customers, and is widely adopted to apply wireless technologies. In this paper, we propose a NAN design which is powered by green energy and rechargeable batteries for flexible and low-cost deployment. We study the optimal setting for the NAN to be powered by solar energy source for a given operational span. The proposed NAN is a wireless mesh network, however, it has asymmetric transmission characteristics due to the requirements of AMI. Therefore, we propose a routing protocol for uplink and downlink transmissions with local recovery capability to enhance the reliability of the proposed NAN to encounter temporary node failures.","PeriodicalId":123545,"journal":{"name":"2015 11th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2015 11th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DRCN.2015.7149021","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A neighborhood area network (NAN) is part of the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in smart grid. A NAN is considered as the last-mile connection in AMI from the metering data management system (MDMS) to the customers, and is widely adopted to apply wireless technologies. In this paper, we propose a NAN design which is powered by green energy and rechargeable batteries for flexible and low-cost deployment. We study the optimal setting for the NAN to be powered by solar energy source for a given operational span. The proposed NAN is a wireless mesh network, however, it has asymmetric transmission characteristics due to the requirements of AMI. Therefore, we propose a routing protocol for uplink and downlink transmissions with local recovery capability to enhance the reliability of the proposed NAN to encounter temporary node failures.