Author(s)

Jing Gao, Xuliang Guang, Peishang Gu, Qing Ren, Xin Song

Corresponding Author

Jing Gao

Abstract

The Smart Grid (SG) is the next generation of power systems. Designing a secure and reliable Smart Grid Communication Network (SGCN) is extremely critical to the realization of smart grid. The Neighbor Area Network (NAN) is in the middle of the SGCN and plays an important role as a bridge. Efficient communication is the premise of realizing a smart grid. The NAN routing algorithm is the core of its communication ability. In the routing algorithm, the routing mechanism directly determines the communication link to the node. The routing criteria play a key role in the routing process, and routing metrics directly affect the choice of communication link. This paper uses the optimized link state routing (OLSR) protocol in NS-3 to realize the performance of wireless mesh network (WMN) in smart grid automatic metering infrastructure (AMI). The simulation results show that, OLSR routing metrics need to be improved in order to meet the reliability requirements of AMI.

Keywords

OLSR, NAN, SGCN, routing metric