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Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the Smart Meter Concentrator Control Protocol for Advanced Metering Infrastructure  

Jang, Soon-Gun (Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
Choi, In-Ji (Korea Electric Power Corporation)
Park, Byoung-Seok (Korea Electric Power Corporation)
Kim, Young-Hyun (Korea Electric Power Corporation)
Yoon, Chong-Ho (Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.48, no.3, 2011 , pp. 41-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose an open protocol to be employed between a smart meter concentrator and a metering data collection server, and also evaluate its performance. Legacy concentrators performs the connection establishment and data gathering operations with DLMS/COSEM protocol standards. However, we note that there are no standardized protocols between the concentrator and the collection server, which inevitably conduces each commercial smart metering system to have its own proprietary protocol. In order to solve this problem, we propose an open protocol - Smart Meter Concentrator Control Protocol(SMCCP) by extending the existing standard protocol(DLMS/COSEM). The SMCCP can provide the proxy mode to enable efficient transmission between the concentrator and the data collection server. It also can support the relay mode to enable a direct communication between the data collection server and each far end smart meter. We also implement an emulator system and a protocol analyzer to provide its operation. In addition, we evaluate the session holding time and the link usage ratio in both relay and proxy modes with OMNET++ simulator.
Keywords
DLMS/COSEM protocol; smart meter; concentrator; metering server; SMCCP;
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