A Comparative Study of Multicast Routing under DR Constraint for Smart Grids
Dan Long, Xiaohui Li, Yuemin Ding, Zhenxing Liu · 2018
Due to the smart device with heavy load may be far away from the control center, the multicast routing algorithm that only based on delay constraint applied in smart grids will cause the longer communication delay for high power intelligent device. Designing a suitable routing algorithm to reduce the communication delay and balance the electricity demand response of smart grids is highly required. Therefore, the Multicast Routing Algorithm under Demand Response Constraint (MRA-DRC) was proposed. However, when using this method in real power grid communication network, the topology of network model has a great influence on the performance of the proposed algorithm. Accordingly, the performance analysis of MRA-DRC running in different network models constructed by complex theory was presented in this paper. The simulation results and performance analysis will help the engineers to improve the communication network when using the proposed algorithm in smart grids.