1. Presentation of Master’s thesis Simulation and Analysis of Wireless Mesh Network In Smart Grid / Advanced Metering Infrastructure Philip Huynh

2. Introduction The need to collect metering data in real-time Challenges in Design and Deployment AMI Infrastructure using WMN: – How to evaluate the network performance: hundred thousands of meter, complicated architecture – Design Optimization: trade-off between scalability and performance properties Goals – Develop a methodology to evaluate the performance of WMN in smart grid / AMI

3. Research opportunity Academic researches provides the nominal evaluation of the performance of WMN. For example: Commercial products in the smart grid field has not supported the real-time metering data collection. An important issue causes low performance in their WMN is the network architecture. Research Opportunities: – WMN architecture: high performance, low cost – Methodology for evaluating the performance of WMN in real-time metering data collection

4. Approach Develop a Network Topology Planning Tool – Visually planning the antennae mounting place of network devices – Statistical data about residential density to support network design Develop a Network Model for AMI Communication Network – It is a Wide Area Network (WAN) – We are interested in a Hybrid WMN Architecture High Scalability Integrated Technologies: IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) An Important Architecture in the future Simulate the network model and Analyze the results – Implement the simulator in the simulator platform, for example NS-3 – Simulate many experiments on the network simulator: WAN, MAN, NAN, LAN – Analyze the simulation results to evaluate the network performance, i.e. Throughput, Delay – Evaluate the trade-off between Scalability and Performance of network model

5. SG-WIP Planning Tool Visually planning the Antenna mounting place for the WiMAX/Wi-Fi WMN – This is a mashup that overlays the Wireless Infrastructure, GIS data (street light poles, housing units) on the Google Maps. Export the network topology as file for further research Can be integrated to the network simulator

6. SG-SIM Simulator Implement the proposed hybrid WiMAX/Wi-Fi Network Model in NS-3 Platform Parameters of the Simulator – Network types: WAN, MAN, NAN, LAN – Number of nodes, Transmission Rate – Others: network initialization time,…

7. Simulation Experiments

8. LAN Simulation Results

9. Conclusion

10. Lessons Learned

11. Future work

12. Questions?

13. References