With the obvious evolution and acceleration of smart grid, it is crucial for its
success to rely on a solid transmission protocol among its peripherals due to its real
time streaming. TCP is the well known traditional transport protocol used for a
reliable transmission, and is a major player for smart grid. However, it lacks a fault
tolerance transmission method that overcomes potential failures which may mitigate
smart grid progress and in its turn decrease its reliability. We propose that smart
grid operators utilize SCTP as the principle transport protocol for their smart grid
communications, by using the two very significant characteristics offered by SCTP
multi-homing and multi-streaming respectively. Thus, we argue that they can override
two major obstacles caused by TCP Head of Line Blocking (HLB) and the inability
of handling automatically two or more paths to a final destination. Although SCTP
resembles TCP in many aspects, SCTP can definitely play a dominant role in many
current and future applications due to its key features that do not exist in TCP. We
have used ns2.34 simulator as the tool whom we relied on to investigate whether or
not smart grid may benefit over TCP by the two SCTP features, and have analyzed
the output of simulated results by using other analytical tools. As we obtain results,
we argue that smart grid operators should rely on SCTP as a feasible transmission
protocol instead of TCP.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/22735 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Alowaidi, Majed |
| Contributors | El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb, Yu, Richard |
| Publisher | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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