Abstract
Smart grid endorsing unification of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with traditional grid leads to privacy threat. Safeguarding confidential data from imposters is a challenging task in the smart distribution grid's communication network, with limited resources. Experimental setup of smart distribution grid has been established, where Xbee nodes with Zigbee protocol have been adopted. An average of 110 bytes is optimal for transmitting essential data from smart meter to a data concentrator / aggregator. Unique identity of Xbee node is deliberated to avoid intrusion of malicious nodes into the smart distribution grid. Data obtained from the meter is hashed using MD5 hashing algorithm to retain anonymity of the end user data. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol is embraced for transport layer and the performance metrics are derived for network layer routing protocols: Ad Hoc on Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). Based on the results, it is evident that alteration of routing protocol makes notorious effect in the performance of wireless communication network. DSR protocol in network layer reduces the average time delay of packet transmission, when compared with AODV protocol applied for same network sizes.
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