Abstract
The performance of smart grid applications such as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and demand response management (DRM) can be improved by exploiting wireless communication technologies. The communication data loading and data losses in smart grid impact the system. In this work, we propose the routing protocol which adopts the cooperative transmission architecture in smart grid communications. Our proposed scheme enables the cooperative nodes to encode and forward the packets through the distributed packet-level erasure coding. The experimental results indicate that our proposed erasure code embedded routing protocol can obtain the better throughput than the conventional routing protocols.