By using experimental measurements of smart grid applications compliant with IEC 61850 in trace-driven WiMAX simulations, we show that the WiMAX MAC protocol efficiency decreases as a function of the number of stations. To avoid this shortcoming, we propose and analyze a novel WiMAX MAC protocol for smart grid applications, which uses lattice correlators to improve the throughput-delay performance significantly. For the considered configurations, the obtained maximum throughput of the proposed MAC protocol outperforms the current WiMAX MAC protocol by up to 41%.
@article{arxiv.1409.2064,
title = {Rethinking the Contention Resolution Mechanism in WiMAX Networks using Lattice Correlators for Improved Smart Grid Communication Performance},
author = {Martin Lévesque},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.2064},
year = {2014}
}