Paper Info
Title
Design and analysis of Split- and Aggregated-transport control protocol (SA-TCP) for Smart Metering Infrastructure
Abstract
This paper investigates the TCP's congestion control mechanism effectiveness for smart meters. We show that the classic congestion control causes a high loss rate for metered data and disrupts competing traffic flows in a shared network. The paper introduces the performance analysis of our proposed Splitand Aggregated-TCP (SA-TCP). SA-TCP complies with industrial bodies' directions (e.g., by Hydro One Networks Inc., Canada) in terms of the architecture, specifically the deployment of hardware devices called Regional Collectors (RC). We argue that RCs can function as transport layer aggregation devices rather than routing devices. This modification reduces packet loss rate and improves throughput for Smart Metering Infrastructure (SMI) traffic. Furthermore, we analyze the performance of the smart metering communication network running SA-TCP in terms of throughput, loss rate and latency. Our analysis is validated by extensive NS-2 simulation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485973
Smart Grid Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
metering,smart meters,transport protocols,Canada,Hydro One Networks Inc,NS-2 simulation,SA-TCP,SMI traffic,TCP congestion control mechanism effectiveness,hardware device deployment,loss rate,packet loss rate reduction,regional collectors,routing devices,smart metering communication network,smart metering infrastructure,smart meters,split-aggregated-TCP,split-aggregated-transport control protocol,traffic flows,transport layer aggregation devices
Computer network,Transport control protocol,Network congestion,Engineering,Metering mode
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2373-6836
978-1-4673-0909-7
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Khalifa, T.1554.63
Abdrabou, A.2191.84
Naik, K.350.59
Alsabaan, M.4191.84