Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2016
Session Number:B4
Session:
Number:B4-3
A System Level Simulator for Reliable Smart Energy Networks
Stefano Tennina, Dionysis Xenakis, Mattia Boschi, Andrea Colarieti, Nikos Passas, Dimitris Tsolkas,
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Publication Date:2016-10-01
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Power grids are deployed and used worldwide and served well in providing a seamless unidirectional power supply of electricity. However, today a new set of challenges is arising, such as the depletion of primary energy resources, the diversification of energy generation and the climate change.With this regard, Smart-NRG project aims to propose new technologies to meet the specific requirements of smart grids applications by proposing a modular and flexible system architecture to face with the challenges imposed by the different application scenarios. In particular, in this paper, we present the simulator developed to implement such a system architecture. Our results demonstrate that adopting cooperative communications among the smart meters in the network is paramount to achieve good performance. This is evident for the end-to-end data reliability, while, provided that the network connectivity is sufficiently high, even a simple binary XOR-based network coding technique is enough to allow gains in terms of network throughput.