Assessment of Smart Metering System Routing Protocols in the Intelligent Grid

摘要

Smart metering system is an intelligent framework that contains smart meters, set of applications, and communication devices. It allows to upstream and downstream data traffic between the smart meters and regional distributed control center through collectors' gateways to automatically and remotely measure electricity use, connect and disconnect the service, identify and isolate outages, and monitor voltage. Real-time data requires a fast transmission network with the ability to find the best path from the sender to the receiver and quick recovery from failure. Therefore, an appropriate wired dynamic routing protocol should be used amidst NAN and WAN zones. in this paper, measuring the performance between three different types of routing protocols RIPv2, EIGRP, and OSPF according to throughput, delay, recovery from failure, bandwidth used to exchange authenticated and unauthenticated protocols messages, the time for convergence between authenticated and unauthenticated protocols, and design a simulation scenario to evaluate the appropriate routing protocol that can be used between collectors, interconnected communication network, and distributed control center gateways in the smart metering system.