Title
Assessment of the Suitability of NB-IoT Technology for ORM in Smart Grids
Author
Nair, V.
Litjens, R.
Zhang, H.
Publication year
2018
Abstract
In this paper, we assess the suitability of NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things) cellular technology for smart grid applications, concentrating on the reliable and timely delivery of Outage Restoration & Management (ORM) messages at the event of a local or regional power outage. Using system-level simulations modelling of both the cellular NB-IoT and the energy distribution networks for different environments, we present an extensive sensitivity analysis of the ORM service performance w.r.t. various radio network configurations. In particular, we propose and analyze different packet schedulers, an essential mechanism in optimizing the service performance. A key outcome of the study is the conclusion that indeed NB-IoT is a suitable technology for supporting ORM services in smart grids, accompanied with a proposed near-optimal radio network configuration to best do so.
Subject
Cellular networks
NB-IoT
Outage Restoration Management
Performance assessment
Reliability
Smart grids
Electric power transmission networks
Europium compounds
Internet of things
Outages
Reliability
Restoration
Sensitivity analysis
Cellular technologies
Energy distribution networks
Outage restorations
Smart grid applications
System level simulation
Smart power grids
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TNO identifier
842687
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN
9781538614785
Source
2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2018, 418-423
Article number
8443186
Document type
conference paper