SoGrid project is launched by ADEME (Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maitrise de l’Energie, France). A large number of research institutes from academia and industry, including Ecole Polytechnique, ERDF, ST Microelectronics, Sagemcom Landis & Gyr, Nexans, Trialog, Capgemini, Grenoble INP, etc., participated in the project.
The goal of the project is to build a full G3-PLC smart grid in France. The project aims at 1.7 billion electric meters in the world, which includes 35 million in France.
As a member of the Network Research Group of Ecole Polytechnique, I was in charge of the routing protocol for the medium voltage network (réseaux HTA).
The introduction of the project at ENEDIS (the electricity ):
https://www.enedis.fr/so-grid-0
About the project in presse:
Le Figaro: Une puce pour compteurs intelligents
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/2013/04/11/97002-20130411FILWWW00693-une-puce-pour-compteurs-intelligents.php
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Les puces des compteurs Linky fabriquées par un consortium toulousain
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2016
Clausen, Thomas; de Verdiere, Axel Colin; Yi, Jiazi; Igarashi, Yuichi; Lys, Thierry; Lavenu, Cedric; Herberg, Ulrich; Satoh, Hiroki; Niktash, Afshin; Dean, Justin
2016.
@misc{yi_loadng,
title = {ITU G.9903 Narrow-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing power line communication transceivers for G3-PLC networks: Amendment 1 -- The Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing Protocol - Next Generation (LOADng)},
author = {Thomas Clausen and Axel Colin de Verdiere and Jiazi Yi and Yuichi Igarashi and Thierry Lys and Cedric Lavenu and Ulrich Herberg and Hiroki Satoh and Afshin Niktash and Justin Dean},
url = {https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-clausen-lln-loadng-15},
year = {2016},
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2014
Cordero, Juan Antonio; Yi, Jiazi; Clausen, Thomas
An adaptive jitter mechanism for reactive route discovery in sensor networks Journal Article
In: Sensors, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 14440–14471, 2014.
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abstract = {This paper analyses the impact of jitter when applied to route discovery in reactive (on-demand) routing protocols. In multi-hop non-synchronized wireless networks, jitter—a small, random variation in the timing of message emission—is commonly employed, as a means to avoid collisions of simultaneous transmissions by adjacent routers over the same channel. In a reactive routing protocol for sensor and ad hoc networks, jitter is recommended during the route discovery process, specifically, during the network-wide flooding of route request messages, in order to avoid collisions. Commonly, a simple uniform jitter is recommended. Alas, this is not without drawbacks: when applying uniform jitter to the route discovery process, an effect called delay inversion is observed. This paper, first, studies and quantifies this delay inversion effect. Second, this paper proposes an adaptive jitter mechanism, designed to alleviate the delay inversion effect and thereby to reduce the route discovery overhead and (ultimately) allow the routing protocol to find more optimal paths, as compared to uniform jitter. This paper presents both analytical and simulation studies, showing that the proposed adaptive jitter can effectively decrease the cost of route discovery and increase the path quality.},
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Yi, Jiazi; Clausen, Thomas
Collection Tree Protocol for Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance- vector Routing - Next Generation (LOADng-CT) Miscellaneous
2014.
@misc{clausen_collection_tree,
title = {Collection Tree Protocol for Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance- vector Routing - Next Generation (LOADng-CT)},
author = {Jiazi Yi and Thomas Clausen},
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Yi, Jiazi; Clausen, Thomas
Smart Route Request for Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing - Next Generation Miscellaneous
2014.
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title = {Smart Route Request for Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing - Next Generation},
author = {Jiazi Yi and Thomas Clausen},
url = {https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yi-loadngsmartrreq-02},
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Yi, Jiazi; Clausen, Thomas
Collection Tree Extension of Reactive Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks Journal Article
In: International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2014, pp. e352421, 2014, ISSN: 1550-1329.
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title = {Collection Tree Extension of Reactive Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks},
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url = {http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/2014/352421/abs/
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year = {2014},
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abstract = {This paper proposes an extension to reactive routing protocol, for efficient construction of a collection tree for data acquisition in sensor networks. The Lightweight On-Demand Ad hoc Distance Vector Routing Protocol-Next Generation (LOADng) is a reactive distance vector protocol which is intended for use in mobile ad hoc networks and low-power and lossy networks to build paths between source-destination pairs. In 2013, ITU-T has ratified the recommendation G.9903 Amendment 1, which includes LOADng in a specific normative annex for routing protocol in smart grids. The extension uses the mechanisms from LOADng, imposes minimal overhead and complexity, and enables a deployment to efficiently support “sensor-to-root” traffic, avoiding complications of unidirectional links in the collection tree. The protocol complexity, security, and interoperability are examined in detail. The simulation results show that the extension can effectively improve the efficiency of data acquisition in the network., This paper proposes an extension to reactive routing protocol, for efficient construction of a collection tree for data acquisition in sensor networks. The Lightweight On-Demand Ad hoc Distance Vector Routing Protocol-Next Generation (LOADng) is a reactive distance vector protocol which is intended for use in mobile ad hoc networks and low-power and lossy networks to build paths between source-destination pairs. In 2013, ITU-T has ratified the recommendation G.9903 Amendment 1, which includes LOADng in a specific normative annex for routing protocol in smart grids. The extension uses the mechanisms from LOADng, imposes minimal overhead and complexity, and enables a deployment to efficiently support “sensor-to-root” traffic, avoiding complications of unidirectional links in the collection tree. The protocol complexity, security, and interoperability are examined in detail. The simulation results show that the extension can effectively improve the efficiency of data acquisition in the network.},
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Yi, Jiazi; Clausen, Thomas; Herberg, Ulrich
Depth First Forwarding for Low Power and Lossy Networks: Application and Extension Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things WF-IoT 2014, 2014.
@inproceedings{LIX-NET-conference-153,
title = {Depth First Forwarding for Low Power and Lossy Networks: Application and Extension},
author = {Jiazi Yi and Thomas Clausen and Ulrich Herberg},
url = {http://jiaziyi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Depth-First-Forwarding-for-Low-Power-and-Lossy-Networks-Application-and-Extension.pdf
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abstract = {Data delivery across a multi-hop low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) is a challenging task: devices participating in such a network have strictly limited computational power and storage, and the communication channels are of low capacity, time-varying and with high loss rates. Consequently, routing protocols finding paths through such a network must be frugal in their control traffic and state requirements, as well as in algorithmic complexity – and even once paths have been found, these may be usable only intermittently, or for a very short time due to changes on the channel. Routing protocols exist for such networks, balancing reactivity to topology and channel variation with frugality in resource requirements. Complementary compo- nent to routing protocols for such LLNs exist, intended not to manage global topology, but to react rapidly to local data delivery failures and (attempt to) successfully deliver data while giving a routing protocol time to recover globally from such a failure. Specifically, this paper studies the “Depth-First Forwarding (DFF) in Unreliable Networks” protocol, standardised within the IETF in June 2013. Moreover, this paper proposes optimisations to that protocol, denoted DFF++, for improved performance and reactivity whilst remaining fully interoperable with DFF as standardised, and incurring neither additional data sets nor protocol signals to be generated.},
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2013
Clausen, Thomas; Yi, Jiazi; Bas, Antonin; Herberg, Ulrich
A Depth First Forwarding (DFF) Extension for the LOADng Routing Protocol Proceedings Article
In: ASON 2013 Sixth International Workshop on Autonomous Self-Organizing Networks, 2013.
@inproceedings{Clausen2013,
title = {A Depth First Forwarding (DFF) Extension for the LOADng Routing Protocol},
author = {Thomas Clausen and Jiazi Yi and Antonin Bas and Ulrich Herberg},
url = {http://jiaziyi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/A-Depth-First-Forwarding-DFF-Extension-for-the-LOADng-Routing-Protocol.pdf
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doi = {10.1109/CANDAR.2013.72},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-12-01},
publisher = {ASON 2013 Sixth International Workshop on Autonomous Self-Organizing Networks},
abstract = {This paper explores the cooperation between the new standards for “Low Power and Lossy Networks” (LLNs): IETF RFC 6971, denoted “Depth-First Forwarding in Unreliable Networks” (DFF) and the ITU-T standardised routing protocol “LOADng” (Lightweight On-demand ad hoc Distance-vector Routing - next generation). DFF is a data-forwarding mechanism for increasing reliability of data delivery in networks with dynamic topology and lossy links, using a mechanism similar to a “depth-first search” for the destination of a packet. LOADng is a reactive on-demand routing protocol used in LLNs. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the benefit of using DFF conjointly with a routing protocol. To this end, the paper compares the performance of LOADng and LOADng+DFF using Ns2 simulations, showing a 20% end-to-end data delivery ratio increase at expense of expected longer path lengths.},
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Yi, Jiazi; Clausen, Thomas; Igarashi, Yuichi
Evaluation of Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks: LOADng and RPL Proceedings Article
In: 2013 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors, 2013.
@inproceedings{Clausen2013a,
title = {Evaluation of Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks: LOADng and RPL},
author = {Jiazi Yi and Thomas Clausen and Yuichi Igarashi},
url = {http://jiaziyi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Evaluation-of-Routing-Protocol-for-Low-Power-and-Lossy-Networks-LOADng-and-RPL.pdf
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year = {2013},
date = {2013-12-01},
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abstract = {Routing protocol is a critical component of Low- power and Lossy Networks for Smart Grid. The protocols are used for data forwarding, which includes data acquisition, information dissemination, etc. This paper evaluates two main routing protocols used for Low-power and Lossy Networks: RPL and LOADng, to understand their strengths and limitations. Observations are provided based on analysis of specification and experimental experience, regarding the protocol’s routing overhead, traffic pattern, resource requirement, fragmentation, etc. Simulations are further launched to study the performance in different traffic patterns, which include sensor-to-sensor traffic, sensor-to-root traffic and root-to-sensor bidirectional traffic. By evaluating those protocols, the readers could have better under- standing of the protocol applicability, and choose the appropriate protocol for desired applications.},
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Yi, Jiazi; Cordero, Juan Antonio; Clausen, Thomas
Jitter Considerations in On-demand Route Discovery for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Proceedings Article
In: The 16th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2013), 2013.
@inproceedings{Clausen2013g,
title = {Jitter Considerations in On-demand Route Discovery for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks},
author = {Jiazi Yi and Juan Antonio Cordero and Thomas Clausen},
url = {http://jiaziyi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Jitter-Considerations-in-On-Demand-Route-Discovery-for-Mobile-Ad-Hoc-Networks.pdf
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year = {2013},
date = {2013-09-01},
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abstract = {Jittering (a small, random variation in timing of control message emission) is widely used in protocols for wireless communication, in order to avoid simultaneous packet transmis- sions over the same channel by adjacent nodes in the network. Used for both regularly scheduled packets, for event-triggered packets, and for scheduled resets in the network, jittering is a particularly important mechanism when a network event may cause multiple adjacent nodes to react concurrently. Introduced in the proactive MANET routing protocol OLSR, the “LLN On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing Protocol - Next Generation” (LOADng), a derivative of AODV, is specified so as to also use jitter for flooding Route Request (RREQ) messages during route discovery. This use of jitter in RREQ flooding is, however, not without drawbacks, which are identified and addressed in this paper within the framework of a more general study of jitter mechanisms used for route discovery in reactive routing protocols. The paper studies the behavior of route discovery when using “naive” jitter (simply, delaying RREQ retransmission by a small uniformly distributed random delay), in order to identify and analyze the problems hereof, mostly related to route sub-optimality and excessive control traffic overhead. A Window Jitter mechanism is then proposed to address these issues – with the performance hereof, when compared to “naive” jitter being evaluated by way of modeling, theoretical analysis and experiments. The paper shows that the use of Window Jitter improves indeed the efficiency of route discovery in AODV and overcome the drawbacks identified for “naive” jitter.},
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Clausen, Thomas; Camacho, Alberto; Yi, Jiazi; de Verdiere, Axel Colin; Igarashi, Yuichi; Satoh, Hiroki; Morii, Yoko; Herber, Ulrich; Lavenu, Cedric
Interoperability Report for the Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance- vector Routing Protocol - Next Generation (LOADng) Miscellaneous
2013.
@misc{yi_interoperability_2014,
title = {Interoperability Report for the Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance- vector Routing Protocol - Next Generation (LOADng)},
author = {Thomas Clausen and Alberto Camacho and Jiazi Yi and Axel Colin de Verdiere and Yuichi Igarashi and Hiroki Satoh and Yoko Morii and Ulrich Herber and Cedric Lavenu },
url = {https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lavenu-lln-loadng-interoperability-report-04},
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