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A Real-Time and Efficient MAC Protocol for Smart Grid Wireless Communications

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  • Qiang Liu
  • Danqi Chen
  • Fangping Gao
  • Guoli Pang

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Communication and information technologies play crucial roles in the smart grid system. Wireless communications offer many unique features to utilities. Real-time capability and high efficiency under heavy load are vital capabilities for smart grid wireless communications. However, the existing medium access control (MAC) protocols for low-rate and short-range wireless transfer in the literature mainly aim to achieve the objectives of low energy consumption and self-configuration and rarely address these requirements under heavy traffic intensity. This paper presents a real-time, efficient, and lightweight MAC (RE-MAC) protocol to support smart grid applications, based on priority node polling and a hybrid scheme. The upper bounds of packet delay are determined using the embedded Markov chain method, and the simulation results demonstrate that the protocol can achieve predictable, real-time, and efficient performance.

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  • Qiang Liu & Danqi Chen & Fangping Gao & Guoli Pang, 2014. "A Real-Time and Efficient MAC Protocol for Smart Grid Wireless Communications," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, , vol. 10(6), pages 291927-2919, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:intdis:v:10:y:2014:i:6:p:291927
    DOI: 10.1155/2014/291927
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