Design and Implementation of MAC Protocol for SmartGrid HAN Environment

Author

Kim, MinSeok ; Kim, Sungryul ; Kim, Jeonghyun ; Yoo, Younghwan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Pusan Nat. Univ., Busan, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 31 2011-Sept. 2 2011

Firstpage

212

Lastpage

217

Abstract

Recent environmental changes have shown the world the importance of sustainable development and these changes demand concrete solutions. The Smart Grid solution is recognized as a key technology to cope with these challenges, not just concerning the environmental impact of greenhouse gases but also regarding the increasing electric demand. Smart Grid is a combination of two networks, the first being the electrical transmission and distribution network, while the other is the modern data communication network. The Smart Grid communication network can be divided into three parts, HAN (Home Area Network), NAN (Neighborhood Area Network), and WAN (Wide Area Network). IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.11 MAC protocols, which are based on the CSMA/CA mechanism, are assumed to be the candidates for the MAC layer of HAN. However, it has latency and energy efficiency problems. In this paper, we have redesigned a tree based TDMA MAC protocol which can be applied in Smart Grid HAN. From the experiments, we verify the performance of our proposed protocol with respect to the network latency, high packet transmission rate and energy efficiency.

Keywords

carrier sense multiple access; data communication; home computing; power engineering computing; smart power grids; time division multiple access; wide area networks; CSMA-CA mechanism; IEEE 802.11 MAC protocols; IEEE 802.15.4; SmartGrid HAN environment; WAN; data communication network; distribution network; electrical transmission network; energy efficiency problems; greenhouse gases; home area network; neighborhood area network; packet transmission rate; smart grid communication network; tree based TDMA MAC protocol; wide area network; IEEE 802.11 Standards; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Time division multiple access; Topology; HAN; MAC; SmartGrid; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pafos

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0383-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4388-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2011.78

Filename

6036754