A heterogeneous WiMAX-WLAN network for AMI communications in the smart grid

2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 710-715

  Khan, Reduan H ^a   Khan, Jamil Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

AMI; Data Aggregation; Smart Grid; WiMAX; WLAN

Indexed keywords

AMI; DATA AGGREGATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNET); NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORK; PROTOCOL OVERHEAD; SMART GRID; TRANSMISSION RANGES; WLAN;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; SMART POWER GRIDS; WIMAX;

ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84876017063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486070     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), "The Smart Grid: an Introduction". [Online]. Available: http://energy. gov/oe/
2. IEEE 802. 16 Broadband Wireless Access Working Group, "Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications study report", May, 2010. [Online]. Available: http://www. ieee802. org/16/ppc/
3. IEEE 802. 16j Standard, "Part 16: Air interface for broadband wireless access systems amendment 1: Multiple relay specification", June 2009.
4. NIST Priority Action Plan 2, "Guidelines for Assessing Wireless Standards for Smart Grid Applications, " December, 2010.
5. IEEE 2030-2011, "IEEE guide for smart grid interoperability of energy technology and information technology operation with the electric power system, end-use applications, and load", September 2011.
6. D. Niyato, E. Hossain, "Integration of IEEE 802. 11 WLANs with IEEE 802. 16-based multihop infrastructure mesh/relay networks: A game-theoretic approach to radio resource management". IEEE Network 21, no. 3, pp. 6-14, 2007.
7. Intel WiMAX/WLAN Link 5350 and 5150. [Online]. Available: http://www. intel. com/products/wireless/wimax/WLAN/index. htm
8. WiMAX Forum, "WiMAX System Evaluation Methodology", May 2008.
9. OPNET Modeler 16. 0-OPNET Technologies, [Online]. Available: http://www. opnet. com
10. IEEE 802. 16-2009, "Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems", May 2009.
11. IEEE 802. 11a-1999, "IEEE Standard for Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications, High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band", 1999.
12. T. Sakurai, H. Vu, "MAC Access Delay of IEEE 802. 11 DCF", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 5, May 2007.