Research Article
Simulations in GAD project: BPL networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8689, author={Francisco Carmona and Juan Moreno and Ana Cabello and Francisco Lobo and David Mora}, title={Simulations in GAD project: BPL networks}, proceedings={The industry track of SIMUTools 2010.}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={SIMULATIONWORKS}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={ns-3 network simulator BPL powerlines PLC.}, doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8689} }- Francisco Carmona
Juan Moreno
Ana Cabello
Francisco Lobo
David Mora
Year: 2010
Simulations in GAD project: BPL networks
SIMULATIONWORKS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8689
Abstract
This paper presents the simulation tasks carried out by CITIC in the framework of the Spanish R&D project Gestión Activa de Demanda (Active Demand Management), with the acronym GAD. Before the actual development of the hardware and software in the GAD project, the entire system architecture was defined. During this initial phase two simulation tasks were performed in order to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of GAD communications both inside a potential customer's home as well as in the upper levels of the electric distribution network. CITIC, working for Ericsson as a research organization, has carried out a specific task to simulate an in-home Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) network, applying the recently developed network simulator ns-3. New features have been added to this simulator in order to complete this task.