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A Mathematical Model for Evaluating the Delay Performance of a Metering Infrastructure in a Shared Medium

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In today’s world of automation, deployment of metering infrastructure is going at larger scale for making the existing grid smarter and intelligent. Utilities are opting for smart meters to provide better and reliable services to their consumers. However, adding new meters to an existing metering network or deploying a new network with a large number of meters may cause some network- performance-related issues particularly when the communication medium is shared by such meters. Further, in the shared medium, when a common event happens like reporting outages by a large number of meters after a mass blackout or plurality of meters, sending data at same time may cause congestion in the network and more delay. This paper evaluates the performance of a metering network and suggests a mathematical model by which the performance, particularly delay and efficiency of the metering network can be improved. It is demonstrated in simulation results that the suggested methodology can reduce the delay by fine-tuning the retransmission parameter when the performance gets deteriorated under the blackout scenario.

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    Mini S. Thomas, Ikbal Ali & Nitin Gupta

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Thomas, M.S., Ali, I. & Gupta, N. A Mathematical Model for Evaluating the Delay Performance of a Metering Infrastructure in a Shared Medium. J Control Autom Electr Syst 26, 642–650 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40313-015-0209-z

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