Broadcast and multicast for customer communications and distribution automation. Final report
- Ennis Associates, Los Gatos, CA (United States)
- First Pacific Networks, San Jose, CA (United States)
This document presents the results of a study undertaken by First Pacific Networks as part of EPRI Project RP-3567-01 regarding the support of broadcast services within the EPRI Utility Communications Architecture (UCA) protocols and the use of such services by UCA applications. This report has focused on the requirements and architectural implications of broadcast within UCA. A subsequent phase of this project is to develop specific recommendations for extending CUA so as to support broadcast. The conclusions of this report are presented in Section 5. The authors summarize the major conclusions as follows: broadcast and multicast support would be very useful within UCA, not only for utility-specific applications but also simply to support the network engineering of a large-scale communications system, in this regard, UCA is no different from other large network systems which have found broadcast and multicast to be of substantial benefit for a variety of system management purposes; the primary architectural impact of broadcast and multicast falls on the UCA network level (which would need to be enhanced) and the UCA application level (which would be the user of broadcast); there is a useful subset of MMS services which could take advantage of broadcast; the UCA network level would need to be enhanced both in the areas of addressing and routing so as to properly support broadcast. A subsequent analysis will be required to define the specific enhancements to UCA required to support broadcast and multicast.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); Ennis Associates, Los Gatos, CA (United States); First Pacific Networks, San Jose, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 459386
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-TR-106354; TRN: AHC29708%%51
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Jun 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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