1. Master’s Thesis Proposal
SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF WIRELESS MESH NETWORK IN ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE
PHILIP HUYNH
April 21, 2010
Advisor Dr. EDWARD CHOW

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MOTIVATIONS
Growing the needs for Smart Grid
Features of Smart Grid (SG)
Two-way Digital Communication
Allow Monitor and Controlling the Appliances at the Consumer’s Homes to Save Energy, Reduce Cost
Real-time Monitor the SG’s Status: More Reliable
Governments need SG: Energy Independence, Global Warming, and Emergence Resilience Issues
Utilities need SG: Energy Efficiency and Competitive of Service, Cost-efficiently protect revenue, and Foundation for Future Service
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
As a Part of the larger Smart Grid Initiatives
Implementing by Governments and utilities
Two-way Communication: Allow commands to send toward the homes for multiple purposes such as Time-of-Use pricing, demand-response actions
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MOTIVATIONS Cont.
Energy Industry Critical Issues: New Plants, Maintaining Overburdened Infrastructure, Aging Workforce, Complying with Regulations and Environment Concerns
AMI Solution allows Interoperable Networks and Systems across the entire Power structure.
Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) As an Option For AMI’s Communication Network
Made up of Radio Nodes organized in a Mesh Topology
WMN technologies: , ,
WMN features:
Low cost of Management and Maintenance: Self Healing and Self Managing
Scalability, Flexibility and Low Cost:
Robust Security: Mutual Device Authentication, derived per-session keys using high bit rate AES encryption.
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Whether the WMN is the good option for the Communication Network of AMI?
Network Performance
Network Scalability
Network Security
Research serves as a Baseline to the Decision Makers of the AMI’s Communication Network Design Process
Proposed WMN architecture: Hybrid WMN [Fig. 1]
AMI Meter Reading Collection [Fig. 2]: Simulation results and Analysis
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APPROACH
Suggest a Network Model for AMI’s Communication Network
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
Hybrid WMN Architecture [Fig. 1]
High Scalability
Integrated Technologies: , ,
An Important Architecture in the Future
Propose a Simulation Scenario [Fig. 2]
Backhaul Network: WiMAX (802.16d)
Local WMNs: Wi-Fi (802.11b)
AMI Meter Reading Application: SmartGridSim [Fig. 3]
Simulate and Analyze the Results
Trade-off between Scalability and Performance of WMN: Number of Hops vs. Round Trip Time of a Message
End-to-End Network Performance Analysis: P2MP, and Mesh Network Analysis.
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WORK FLOW
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TASKS
Already Complete
Research Smart Grid/AMI
Research WMN/Hybrid WMN Architecture
Research Network Simulator SW: NS-2, NCTUns 6.0
Figure 1: Hybrid WMN Architecture
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TASKS Cont.
In Progress
Propose Simulation Scenario:
Integrated wireless MAN: WiMAX, Wi-Fi
SmartGridSim Application: Measures the Performance of Communication Network.
Figure 2: Simulation Scenario
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TASKS Cont.
Future
Simulate the Scenario in the NCTUns 6.0
Analyze the Simulation Results
Write Thesis Report
Figure 3: SmartGridSim Application
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DELIVERABLES
The SmartGridSim: an Simulation of AMI Meter Reading Application
Source Code
Program User Guide
Thesis Report
WMN Technologies
Network Model
Simulation Scenario: Descriptions, Parameter Settings for Network Layer 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7.
Simulation Results and Analysis
Network Simulator SW: NCTUns 6.0
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REFERENCES
[1] “Smart Grid”, <
[2] “Advanced Metering infrastructure”, National Energy Technology Laboratory white paper, February 2008.
[3] Prasant Mohapatra, “Wireless Mesh Networks”, Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis.
[4] I. F. Akyildiz, X. Wang, and W. Wang, "Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey," Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), vol. 47, no. 4, pp , Mar
[5] Srini Krishnamurthy, “Smart AMI Network Solutions Enable the Smart Grid”, ElectricEnergyOnline.com, <
[6] “Understanding Wi-Fi and WiMAX as Metro-Access Solutions”, Intel Corporation white paper, 2004.
[7] B. Liu, Z. Liu, and D. Towsley, "On the capacity of hybrid wireless networks", in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Mar. 2003, vol. 2, pp
[8] S. Zhao and D. Raychaudhuri, "On the Scalability of Hierarchical Hybrid Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2006), March 2006, pp
[9] S. Zhao, I. Seskar and D. Raychaudhuri, "Performance and Scalability of Self-Organizing Hierarchical Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'04), Atlanta, GA. March 2004, pp
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REFERENCES Cont.
[10] J. –H. Huang, L. -C. Wang, C. -J. Chang, “Wireless Mesh Network: Architecture and Protocols”, chapter title “Architectures and Deployment Strategies for Wireless Mesh Networks”, Springer 2008.
[11] “OSI Model”, <
[12] IEEE Standard 802 Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications, 2007.
[13] IEEE Standard 802 Part 15.1: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Personal Area Networks (WPANs), 2005.
[14] IEEE Standard 802 Part 16: Air Interface for Broadband Wireless Access Systems, 2009.
[15] WiMAX community, <
[16] The Network Simulator Ns-2, <
[17] NCTUns 6.0 Network Simulator and Emulator, <
[18] “The Protocol Developer Manual for the NCTUns 6.0”, Network and System Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 2010.
[19] S.M. Huang, Y.C. Sung, S.Y. Wang, and Y.B. Lin, “NCTUns Simulation Tool for WiMAX Modeling,” Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference, October 22 – 24, 2007, Austin, Texas, USA. (EI and ISI indexed, sponsored by ICST, ACM, and EURASIP)
[20] N.B. Salem and J.-P. Hubaux, "Securing Wireless Mesh Networks," Wireless Comm., vol. 13, no. 2, 2006, pp. 50–55.
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