Performance Evaluations of Next Generation Networks for Smart Grid Applications
Özet
Smart Grid (SG) can be described as the concept of
modernizing the traditional electrical grid. Through the addition
of SG technologies traditional electrical grids become more
flexible, robust and interactive, and are able to provide real time
feedback by employing innovative services and products together
with communication, control, intelligent monitoring, and selfhealing technologies. For being fully functional, utility operators
deploy various SG applications to handle the key requirements
including delivery optimization, demand optimization and asset
optimization needs. The SG applications can be categorized into
two main classes: grid-focused applications and customer-focused
applications. Although these applications differ in terms of
security, Quality of Service (QoS) and reliability, their common
requirement is a communication infrastructure. In this paper, we
focus on the use of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) for SG
applications. We also present a detailed analysis of a NGN-based
communication infrastructure for SG applications in terms of
global network statistics and node-level statistics.
