Performance analysis of wireless mesh routing protocols for smart utility networks

Author

Iyer, Gopalakrishnan ; Agrawal, Prathima ; Monnerie, Emmanuel ; Cardozo, Ruben Salazar

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

17-20 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

119

Abstract

Legacy utility meters for electricity, water and gas are rapidly being replaced by highly automated and networked smart meters. The network of smart meters, collector devices and head-end systems constitute an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). The purpose of deploying an AMI is to increase the granularity of utility consumption data for demand-response applications. A data routing protocol is essential for forwarding collected information to an aggregation point. A fully functional protocol suite for networking of such smart metering devices is imperative to the success of the AMI. This paper reviews two such wireless mesh routing protocols designed to work for AMI systems, viz. RPL and Geographical routing. A performance analysis of these protocols using real world topology, deployed on-field, is presented in this paper.

Keywords

automatic meter reading; routing protocols; wireless mesh networks; AMI system; advanced metering infrastructure; collector device; demand-response application; electricity; gas; head-end system; legacy utility meter; networked smart meter; performance analysis; smart utility network; utility consumption data; water; wireless mesh routing protocol; world topology; Measurement; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Routing; Routing protocols; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brussels

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1704-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1702-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SmartGridComm.2011.6102301

Filename

6102301