Performance analysis of smart grid communication protocol DNP3 over TCP/IP in a heterogeneous traffic environment

• Autor(a) principal: Ortega, Alcides [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Shinoda, Ailton Akira [UNESP], Schweitzer, Christiane Marie [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ColComCon.2013.6564828; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/76347
• topic: DNP3; NS-2; Protocol; Simulation; Smart Grid; TCP/IP; Smart grid; Internet protocols; Network protocols; Smart power grids; Computer simulation

This paper presents simulation results of the DNP3 communication protocol over a TCP/IP network, for Smart Grid applications. The simulation was performed using the NS-2 network simulator. This study aimed to use the simulation to verify the performance of the DNP3 protocol in a heterogeneous LAN. Analyzing the results it was possible to verify that the DNP3 over a heterogeneous traffic network, with communication channel capacity between 60 and 85 percent, it works well with low packet loss and low delay, however, with traffic values upper 85 percent, the DNP3 usage becomes unfeasible because the information lost, re-transmissions and latency are significantly increased. © 2013 IEEE.