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A reliable QoS-aware routing scheme for neighbor area network in smart grid

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A reliable bi-directional communication network is one of the key factors in smart grid (SG) to meet application requirements and improve energy efficiency. As a promising communication infrastructure, wireless mesh network (WMN) can provide high speed and cost-effect communication for SG. However, challenges remain to maintain high reliability and quality of service (QoS) when applying WMNs to SG. In this paper, we first propose a hybrid wireless mesh protocol (HWMP) based neighbor area network (NAN) QoS-aware routing scheme, named HWMP-NQ, to meet the QoS requirements by applying an integrated routing metric to route decision with effective link condition probing and queue optimization. To further improve the reliability of the proposed HWMP-NQ, we present a multi-gateway backup routing scheme along with a routing reliability correction factor to mitigate the impact of routing oscillations. Finally, we evaluate the performances of the proposed schemes on NS3 simulator. Extensive simulations demonstrate that HWMP-NQ can distinguish different applications and satisfy the QoS requirements respectively, and also improve the average packet delivery ratio and throughput with a reduced routing overhead, even with a high failure rate of mesh nodes.

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The authors acknowledge the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China projects of grant No. 61379058, 61379057, 61350011, 60903058, and Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province project of grant No.10JJ6093.

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    Xiaoheng Deng, Lifang He, Xu Li, Qiang Liu & Zhigang Chen

  2. Department of electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

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Deng, X., He, L., Li, X. et al. A reliable QoS-aware routing scheme for neighbor area network in smart grid. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 9, 616–627 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-015-0331-5

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