SMAC: A soft MAC to reduce control overhead and latency in CDMA-based AMI networks

Garlapati, Shravan; Kuruganti, Teja; Buehrer, Michael R.; Reed, Jeffrey H.

doi:10.1109/TNET.2015.2481718

Title: SMAC: A soft MAC to reduce control overhead and latency in CDMA-based AMI networks

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The utilization of state-of-the-art 3G cellular CDMA technologies in a utility owned AMI network results in a large amount of control traffic relative to data traffic, increases the average packet delay and hence are not an appropriate choice for smart grid distribution applications. Like the CDG, we consider a utility owned cellular like CDMA network for smart grid distribution applications and classify the distribution smart grid data as scheduled data and random data. Also, we propose SMAC protocol, which changes its mode of operation based on the type of the data being collected to reduce the data collection latency and control overhead when compared to 3G cellular CDMA2000 MAC. The reduction in the data collection latency and control overhead aids in increasing the number of smart meters served by a base station within the periodic data collection interval, which further reduces the number of base stations needed by a utility or reduces the bandwidth needed to collect data from all the smart meters. The reduction in the number of base stations and/or the reduction in the data transmission bandwidth reduces the CAPital EXpenditure (CAPEX) and OPerational EXpenditure (OPEX) of the AMI network. Finally, the proposed SMAC protocol is analyzed usingmore »« less

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Garlapati, Shravan ^[1]; Kuruganti, Teja ^[2]; Buehrer, Michael R. ^[1]; Reed, Jeffrey H. ^[1]

Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computational Sciences and Engineering Division

Publication Date:: Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1261276

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking; Journal ID: ISSN 1063-6692

Publisher:: IEEE/ACM

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; average throughput and packet delay; CAPEX; CDMA; Markov chain; OPEX; OTRA-THS MAC; SDMAC; smart meter networks

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                    Garlapati, Shravan, Kuruganti, Teja, Buehrer, Michael R., and Reed, Jeffrey H. SMAC: A soft MAC to reduce control overhead and latency in CDMA-based AMI networks.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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"SMAC: A soft MAC to reduce control overhead and latency in CDMA-based AMI networks".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2015.2481718.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1261276.

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  title        = {SMAC: A soft MAC to reduce control overhead and latency in CDMA-based AMI networks},

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  abstractNote = {The utilization of state-of-the-art 3G cellular CDMA technologies in a utility owned AMI network results in a large amount of control traffic relative to data traffic, increases the average packet delay and hence are not an appropriate choice for smart grid distribution applications. Like the CDG, we consider a utility owned cellular like CDMA network for smart grid distribution applications and classify the distribution smart grid data as scheduled data and random data. Also, we propose SMAC protocol, which changes its mode of operation based on the type of the data being collected to reduce the data collection latency and control overhead when compared to 3G cellular CDMA2000 MAC. The reduction in the data collection latency and control overhead aids in increasing the number of smart meters served by a base station within the periodic data collection interval, which further reduces the number of base stations needed by a utility or reduces the bandwidth needed to collect data from all the smart meters. The reduction in the number of base stations and/or the reduction in the data transmission bandwidth reduces the CAPital EXpenditure (CAPEX) and OPerational EXpenditure (OPEX) of the AMI network. Finally, the proposed SMAC protocol is analyzed using markov chain, analytical expressions for average throughput and average packet delay are derived, and simulation results are also provided to verify the analysis.},

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