What can wireless cellular technologies do about the upcoming smart metering traffic?

Abstract-Selection of the most appropriate communications technology for a smart grid (SG) application is far from trivial. We propose such a feasibility assessment starting from identification of key performance indicators (KPIs) required for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading and grid control operations from a communications perspective. A set of cross-disciplinary KPIs, both quantitative and qualitative, are considered from communications, power, business, actor involvement, financial, and demand side management categories. They serve as a general baseline for use cases, as there have been few previous works attempting to capture the essential features of P2P SG operations. The KPIs are briefly identified along with their relations to P2P energy trading and grid control. A straightforward comparison of the quantitative and qualitative KPIs' impact on technology selection is not feasible. This paper addresses the comparison with: 1) a prioritization of the KPIs using the analytic hierarchy process; 2) a comparison of technology solutions evaluated in our previous works against the KPIs' requirements; and 3) a total feasibility evaluation of the solutions against selected KPIs. The prioritization shows latency, reliability, security, scalability, robustness, costs of information and communication technologies (ICT) devices, and costs of ICT deployment are the most important KPIs in enabling P2P energy trading and grid control. Further, the technology feasibility assessment enables identification of the most suitable candidates for an SG application.

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“…Due to smart meter on/off behavior it is important to design proper network access mechanisms to provide connectivity to the entities [8].…”

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Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and Grid Control Communications Solutions' Feasibility Assessment Based on Key Performance Indicators

Haapola¹,

Ali²,

Kalalas³

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring)

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“…However, upcoming innovative delay-sensitive and bandwidthdemanding applications include real-time pricing, smart distribution applications, and phasor measurements on power distribution networks by enhanced SMs (eSMs) [4]. These applications require much higher bandwidth and higher QoS for large numbers of sensing end-devices and SMs/eSMs [4][6] [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These applications require much higher bandwidth and higher QoS for large numbers of sensing end-devices and SMs/eSMs [4][6] [7]. Third generation partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) is the mobile WAN with the highest data rates, the lowest latencies, and that can admit largest numbers of user equipments (UEs).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Major challenges are related to large numbers of machines/SMs attempting access to delay-prone and bandwidthlimited cellular systems. Using analytic and/or simulation methods [4]- [8][24] unveiled quantified bandwidth and delay limitations of GPRS/LTE when it comes to innovative AMI applications. [27] and many other similar works went further to propose radio resource management techniques that aim at meeting AMI communication requirements over LTE.…”

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“…These applications rely on real-time and near real-time measured/sensed data, as well as real-time end-device control and monitoring [4][6] [7].…”

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Introducing the Latest 3GPP Specifications and their Potential for Future AMI Applications

Koumadi¹,

Park²,

Myoung³

2016

KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy

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Despite the exponential throughput improvement in mobile communications systems, their ability to satisfy requirements of stateof-the-art and future applications of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is still under investigation. Challenges are mainly due to the inadequacy of third generation partnership project (3GPP) networks to support large amounts of devices simultaneously, while the number of AMI end-devices and the frequency of their data transmission increase with new AMI-based applications. In this introductory survey, innovative and future AMI applications and their communication requirements are first reviewed. Then, we identify challenges of 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) in enabling future AMI applications. More importantly, the latest improvements to LTE-A standard release 12 and 13 are reviewed and analyzed with regards to their potential to improve the quality of LTE-enabled AMI. It is found that 3GPP enhancements on machine type communications (MTC) standards will significantly enhance AMI communications. Beyond MTC specifications, non-MTC-specific enhancements such as carrier aggregation and multi-connectivity for user equipment will also contribute greatly to improving reliability and availability of AMI devices. The paper's focus is towards improved backhaul support for innovative and future AMI applications, beyond traditional automatic meter reading.

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5Gand Cellular Networks in the Smart Grid

Nielsen¹,

Jorguseski

Zhang

et al. 2018

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Figure 1.1.1 Smart city architecture. key areas of the cities, such as power grids, water and underground systems, oil and gas pipelines, railways, roads, schools, hospitals, stations, airports, and so on. The application areas of the smart city are diverse, and they connect every corner of the city to the Internet. This provides global intelligence over the management, and it paves the road for "Internet + Internet of things = smart planet" (Zhang et al., 2010). The smart city is the application of the concept of the smart planet to a specific region. The surveillance of infrastructure and environments of the city with the help of sensor technology achieves intelligent urban management and services (Su et al., 2010). The features of the smart city provide development of efficient urban strategies such as construction of smart homes, wireless cities, and smart transportation systems (Su et al., 2010). The use of IoT to realize the smart city vision brings important challenges. With IoT technology, it is estimated that the number of devices connected to Internet will reach to 16 billion in 2020 (EU, 2010). Due to this increase, wireless data traffic that is being fulfilled in cities will reach excessive levels, and the available spectrum will become scarcer. Ever-growing demand in wireless communications has also increased the spectrum scarcity problem. Furthermore, fixed allocation of the spectrum worsens the problem of inefficient spectrum use. While the licensed spectrum bands are underutilized, the unlicensed ones are crowded, and the wireless communication is no longer feasible in these bands. To overcome the spectrum inefficiency and scarcity problems, CR technology is proposed (Mitola and Maguire, 1999). CR-capable wireless devices can access the licensed spectrum bands opportunistically and hence increase the spectrum utilization efficiency (Haykin, 2008). On the other hand, wireless nodes in these systems are resource constrained. Even though the majority of sensor nodes have duty cycling, a conventional battery in a sensor node depletes in less than a year. Therefore, an auxiliary or even a completely distinct source, such as heat, light, motion, and electromagnetic (EM) waves must be exploited to ensure sensors' operation. In this regard, EH technologies come into prominence to build wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that are free from battery constraints (Sudevayalam and Kulkarni, 2011). Hence, these challenges promote

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What can wireless cellular technologies do about the upcoming smart metering traffic?

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Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and Grid Control Communications Solutions' Feasibility Assessment Based on Key Performance Indicators

Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and Grid Control Communications Solutions' Feasibility Assessment Based on Key Performance Indicators

Introducing the Latest 3GPP Specifications and their Potential for Future AMI Applications

5Gand Cellular Networks in the Smart Grid

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