Abstract

ARANDA, Juan Manuel. Design and performance evaluation of a communication network for smart metering in Network Simulator-2. ing. [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.1, pp.21-35. ISSN 0121-750X.

This article presents the results of design and performance evaluation of a Smart Metering or AMI network, using the Network Simulator-2. The communication network proposed combines technologies such as, PLC and HSPDA, using data concentrators (DCs) and application and transport protocols such as DLMS/COSEM and TCP/IP. The performance evaluation results shown that introducing data concentrator inside a communication network provides a superior performance compared with others that not use it.Finally,the employment of DCs on the design also extended communication coverage and reduce direct accesses to the network.

Keywords : AMI; 3G mobile communications; DLMS/COSEM; PLC; Smart Grids.

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