Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless sensor networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An analysis of unreliability and asymmetry in low-power wireless links
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Error control in wireless sensor networks: a cross layer analysis
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A survey on communication networks for electric system automation
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Survey Paper: A survey on the communication architectures in smart grid
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Chip Error Pattern Analysis in IEEE 802.15.4
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Survey A survey of routing protocols for smart grid communications
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Cognitive radio based hierarchical communications infrastructure for smart grid
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Heterogeneous communication architecture for the smart grid
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been used in various smart grid applications, including remote power system monitoring and control, power fraud detection, wireless automatic metering, fault diagnostics, demand response, outage detection, overhead transmission line monitoring, load control, and distribution automation. However, harsh smart grid environment propagation characteristics cause great challenges in the reliability of WSN communications in smart grid applications. To this end, the analysis of wireless link reliability and channel characterizations can help network designers to foresee the performance of the deployed WSN for specific smart grid propagation environments, and guide the network engineers to make design decisions for the channel modulation, encoding schemes, output power, and frequency band. This paper presents a detailed analysis of low power wireless link reliability in different smart grid environments, such as 500kV outdoor substation environment, indoor main power control room, and underground network transformer vaults. Specifically, the proposed analysis aims to evaluate the impact of different sensor radio parameters, such as modulation, encoding, transmission power, packet size, as well as the channel propagation characteristics of different smart grid propagation environments on the performance of the deployed sensor network in smart grid. Overall, the main objective of this paper is to help network designers quantifying the impact of the smart grid propagation environment and sensor radio characteristics on low power wireless link reliability in harsh smart grid environments.