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Multi-Protocol Transport Layer QoS: A Performance Analysis for The Smart Grid

Authors:
James Wilcox
Dritan Kaleshi
Mahesh Sooriyabandara

Keywords: Quality of Service, Adaptive Transport Layer, Network Emulation, Middleware, Smart Grid

Abstract:
Application specific interaction models will be required to support efficient communications between distributed applications with disparate network requirements in the consumer side Smart Grid (SG) data network. While much work has been done to quantify SG communications requirements in general, there is little public information on how to support the individual applications. This paper will show that specific transport protocols are able to provide increased efficiency of network resource usage under specific network conditions and that by providing a real-time adaptive selection of these transport protocols it would be possible to achieve a distributed embedded system with heterogeneous actors that can react to both application-specified Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and varying network conditions.

Pages: 13 to 18

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: April 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-412X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-332-2

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 20, 2014 to April 24, 2014