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Robust QoS-aware communication in the smart distribution grid

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The increasing penetration of distributed generation into the power distribution domain necessitates reliable and QoS-aware communication in order to safely manage the grid. To achieve this, heterogeneous networks (a combination of the Internet and private networks) offer a promising approach due to the potential cost effectiveness and leveraging the ubiquitous coverage. However, the current Internet infrastructure does not support end-to-end (E2E) QoS-guaranteed communication. To cope with this challenge, we propose a novel overlay network architecture, termed HetGrid, with a dedicated QoS routing mechanism. It provides QoS guarantees across the network, taking into account three parameters: reliability, latency and bandwidth for power distribution grid applications. To achieve this, we also develop two elements, namely (a) multipath routing mechanism compensating the critical applications for their high reliability requirements by employing E2E physically-disjoint paths, and (b) altruistic resource allocation with the QoS routing mechanism targeting QoS-guaranteed communication for applications having strict QoS requirements. Our results demonstrate that the proposed overlay network approach provides highly efficient, reliable and QoS-aware communication in heterogeneous networks.

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  1. In this work, heterogeneous networks implies a composite of public (on the Internet) or private networks.

  2. In this paper, TCP is used to refer to TCP Vegas.

  3. As Internet service providers (ISP) can assure re-convergence time in the range of a few seconds by employing MPLS within AS, we do need to use any overlay routing inside the cluster. However, for high priority applications, HGN still sends the messages over d SN’s that provide disjoint paths over a given AS routers.

  4. k paths are found by using the k shortest path algorithm and equation 1. We do not put a limit on k to pave the way for obtaining more disjoint paths. In our implementation, k is observed between 5-20

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Demir, K., Germanus, D. & Suri, N. Robust QoS-aware communication in the smart distribution grid. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 10, 193–207 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-015-0418-z

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