The Impact of User and Traffic Models on the Design of the Communications Network in the Smart Grid

A. T. Burrell, Fernando Mancilla-David, P. Papantoni-Kazakos

Computer Science Department, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA.
Electrical Engineering Department, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2014.73011                

Abstract

A critical component of the smart grid (SG) infrastructure is the embedded communications network, where an important objective of the latter is the expansion of its throughput, in conjunction with the satisfaction of specified latency and accuracy requirements. For the effective design of the communications network, the user and traffic profiles, such as known-user vs. unknown-user populations and bursty vs. non-bursty data traffics, must be carefully considered and subsequently modeled. This paper relates user and traffic models to the deployment of effective multiple access transmission algorithms in the communications network of the SG.

Keywords

Smart Grid Communications; User Models; Traffic Models; Matching Multiple Access Communications Algorithms

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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