A Multigate Scheme to Improve CORPL under Traffic Load in Cognitive Radio Based Smart Grids with Mesh Topology

The conventional power grid has several drawbacks and a new powerful smart grid perspective has been recently introduced. The smart grid principle, allowing to efficiently manage an electrical grid network, needs to exploit a communication network for interconnecting the Smart Grid devices. An increasing interest is toward wireless communications due to their higher flexibility. Within this context cognitive radio (CR) techniques has been introduced aiming to exploit more efficiently the radio spectrum resources. In neighborhood area network (NAN), mesh grids can be considered as one of possible network topologies. In such networks no base station is required and data will be sent to gateway by means of nodes themselves. Hence, routing is one of the main issues in such networks. Routing in such networks should be done by a protocol which maximizes throughput against cognitive radio drawbacks and Packets delay in such protocol needs to be minimum and suitable for smart grids applications. CORPL has been introduced as a routing protocol to meet some of these goals. In this paper by CORPL functionality would be evaluated under burst and poisson traffic. It will be shown that by increasing active nodes, CORPL functionality would be decreased. Then average upper limit for delay would be mathematically modeled and to reduce that a multigate scheme would be introduced.