Improving the quality of service for critical flows in Smart Grid using software-defined networking

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Alharbi ◽  
Zongming Fei
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Software Defined Networking

Quality of service aware traffic scheduling in wireless smart grid communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parya Hajimirzaee ◽  
Mohammad Fathi ◽  
Nooruldeen Nasih Qader
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Traffic Scheduling ◽  
Smart Grid Communication

scholarly journals Multiple Instances QoS Routing in RPL: Application to Smart Grids

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 2472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jad Nassar ◽  
Matthieu Berthomé ◽  
Jérémy Dubrulle ◽  
Nicolas Gouvy ◽  
Nathalie Mitton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Objective Function ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Control Point ◽  
Service Differentiation ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Lossy Networks ◽  
Packet Delivery

The Smart Grid (SG) aims to transform the current electric grid into a “smarter” network where the integration of renewable energy resources, energy efficiency and fault tolerance are the main benefits. This is done by interconnecting every energy source, storage point or central control point with connected devices, where heterogeneous SG applications and signalling messages will have different requirements in terms of reliability, latency and priority. Hence, data routing and prioritization are the main challenges in such networks. So far, RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy networks) protocol is widely used on Smart Grids for distributing commands over the grid. RPL assures traffic differentiation at the network layer in wireless sensor networks through the logical subdivision of the network in multiple instances, each one relying on a specific Objective Function. However, RPL is not optimized for Smart Grids, as its main objective functions and their associated metric does not allow Quality of Service differentiation. To overcome this, we propose OFQS an objective function with a multi-objective metric that considers the delay and the remaining energy in the battery nodes alongside with the dynamic quality of the communication links. Our function automatically adapts to the number of instances (traffic classes) providing a Quality of Service differentiation based on the different Smart Grid applications requirements. We tested our approach on a real sensor testbed. The experimental results show that our proposal provides a lower packet delivery latency and a higher packet delivery ratio while extending the lifetime of the network compared to solutions in the literature.

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