A novel power-saving scheduling scheme in large scale smart-grid networks

作者：Chen Chen^*; Liu Lei; Hu Mingcheng; Pei Qingqi; Cong Li; Wang Shengda

来源：11th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking in China, ChinaCom 2016, 2016-09-24 To 2016-09-26.

DOI：10.1007/978-3-319-66628-0_27

• Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidances
• Medium access protocol
• Next generation WLAN
• Power saving mechanism
• Power savings
• Scheduling schemes
• Smart grid
• Smart grid networks

The IEEE 802.11ah Task Group is going to specify a global WLAN standard. However,.ah drafts still employs the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) medium access protocol, which is an energy-consuming protocol and not suitable for networks where STAs are generally battery supplied. Besides, since.ah could support up to 6000 stations at most to be scheduled within one BSS, the introduced overhead and corresponding processing delay are non-trivial. In this paper, a power saving scheduling scheme is proposed which could greatly reduce the introduced overhead while successfully scheduling the uplink/downlink traffic of meters. Our model could also save the station’s battery with best efforts thus making our protocol specifically suitable for Smart-Grid networks where battery changing for stations is difficult. Numerical results show that our scheme outperforms the PSM (Power Saving Mechanism) and PSMP (Power Save Multi-Poll) protocols in terms of overheads, throughput and energy consumptions.

• 出版日期2018
• 单位综合业务网理论及关键技术国家重点实验室; 西安电子科技大学