Enhancing Wi-SUN AMI Network Resilience by using Emergency Gateway with Optimal Placement

Radio interference or jamming can cause isolated area in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) based on Wire-less smart utility network (Wi-SUN), in which conventional recovery techniques cannot cope with. In this paper, we deploy narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) interface to some smart meters to act as emergency gateway, called ResiLite. An optimal ResiLite placement algorithm for enhancing network resilience is proposed. We define an implicit resilience metric based on path diversity and cluster closeness. The defined metric is used to form an integer linear programming (ILP) problem, then we solve the ILP to obtain optimal ResiLite placement. Simulation results show that the optimal ResiLite placement improves Wi-SUN AMI network resilience (defined as the number of surviving nodes with packet delivery ratio (PDR) above 99% under disturbance) by up to 167% compared to an AMI without ResiLite, and up to 29% compared to uniformly random ResiLite placement, respectively.