TITLE:
The Impact of User and Traffic Models on the Design of the Communications Network in the Smart Grid
AUTHORS:
A. T. Burrell, Fernando Mancilla-David, P. Papantoni-Kazakos
KEYWORDS:
Smart Grid Communications; User Models; Traffic Models; Matching Multiple Access Communications Algorithms
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.7 No.3,
March
13,
2014
ABSTRACT: A critical component of the smart grid (SG)
infrastructure is the embedded communications network, where an important
objective of the latter is the expansion of its throughput, in conjunction with the satisfaction of
specified latency and accuracy requirements. For the effective design of the
communications network, the user and traffic profiles, such as known-user vs.
unknown-user populations and bursty vs. non-bursty data traffics, must be
carefully considered and subsequently modeled. This paper relates user and
traffic models to the deployment of effective multiple access transmission
algorithms in the communications network of the SG.