6LoWPAN based neighborhood area network for a smart grid communication infrastructure

Chen, D; Brown, J; Khan, JY

6LoWPAN based neighborhood area network for a smart grid communication infrastructure

Chen, D Brown, J

Khan, JY

Permalink

Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN, 2013, pp. 576 - 581
Issue Date:: 2013-12-01

Closed Access

	Filename	Description	Size
	06614885.pdf	Published version	907.47 kB	Adobe PDF	View/Open

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Closed Access

This item is closed access and not available.

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Chen, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Brown, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0698-5758	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Khan, JY	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN, 2013, pp. 576 - 581	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781467359900	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2165-8528	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/121068
dc.description.abstract	Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) is a key component of a smart grid communication network infrastructure. A NAN generally works as an access network connecting all the customer equipment and some field devices to the smart grid communication infrastructure to exchange data and control information. NANs can be designed based on infrastructure based access network such as WiMAX or LTE based system to cover a wide geographic area. However, one of the main problems for such NAN architecture is that a centralized base station based system may not be able to provide connectivity to all user equipment or field devices due to presence of low SNR regions with radio coverage area of a base station. To ensure 100% connectivity of NAN devices use of radio mesh networks are now actively being considered by the researchers and electricity utilities and companies. This paper presents a 6LoWPAN based NAN architecture designed to serve all smart meters in a NAN coverage area and also to maintain QoS requirements of different applications within NANs. T his p aper a nalyse t he p erformance o f a 6 LoWPAN based basic radio mesh network using a newly develop discrete event simulation model using the OPNET network modeling package. © 2013 IEEE.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/ICUFN.2013.6614885	en_US
dc.title	6LoWPAN based neighborhood area network for a smart grid communication infrastructure	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	0805 Distributed Computing	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) is a key component of a smart grid communication network infrastructure. A NAN generally works as an access network connecting all the customer equipment and some field devices to the smart grid communication infrastructure to exchange data and control information. NANs can be designed based on infrastructure based access network such as WiMAX or LTE based system to cover a wide geographic area. However, one of the main problems for such NAN architecture is that a centralized base station based system may not be able to provide connectivity to all user equipment or field devices due to presence of low SNR regions with radio coverage area of a base station. To ensure 100% connectivity of NAN devices use of radio mesh networks are now actively being considered by the researchers and electricity utilities and companies. This paper presents a 6LoWPAN based NAN architecture designed to serve all smart meters in a NAN coverage area and also to maintain QoS requirements of different applications within NANs. T his p aper a nalyse t he p erformance o f a 6 LoWPAN based basic radio mesh network using a newly develop discrete event simulation model using the OPNET network modeling package. © 2013 IEEE.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/121068