IEC 62056-8-4:2018

Electricity metering data exchange - The DLMS/COSEM suite - Part 8-4: Communication profiles for narrow-band OFDM PLC PRIME neighbourhood networks

IEC 62056-8-4:2018

Name:IEC 62056-8-4:2018   Standard name:Electricity metering data exchange - The DLMS/COSEM suite - Part 8-4: Communication profiles for narrow-band OFDM PLC PRIME neighbourhood networks
Standard number:IEC 62056-8-4:2018   language:English and French language
Release Date:12-Dec-2018   technical committee:TC 13 - Electrical energy measurement and control
Drafting committee:   ICS number:17.220.20 - Measurement of electrical and magnetic quantities

IEC 62056-8-4
Edition 1.0 2018-12
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
colour
inside
Electricity metering data exchange – the DLMS/COSEM suite –
Part 8-4: Communication profiles for narrow-band OFDM PLC PRIME
neighbourhood networks
Échange des données de comptage de l'électricité – la suite DLMS/COSEM –
Partie 8-4: Profils de communication pour réseaux de voisinage OFDM PLC
PRIME à bande étroite




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IEC 62056-8-4
Edition 1.0 2018-12
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
colour
inside
Electricity metering data exchange – the DLMS/COSEM suite –

Part 8-4: Communication profiles for narrow-band OFDM PLC PRIME

neighbourhood networks
Échange des données de comptage de l'électricité – la suite DLMS/COSEM –

Partie 8-4: Profils de communication pour réseaux de voisinage OFDM PLC

PRIME à bande étroite
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 17.220.20; 35.110.01; 91.140.50 ISBN 978-2-8322-6334-1

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 5
INTRODUCTION . 7
1 Scope . 8
2 Normative references . 8
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 10
3.1 Terms and definitions . 10
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 10
4 Targeted communication environments . 12
5 Use of the communication layers for this profile . 13
5.1 Information related to the use of the standard specifying the lower layers . 13
5.2 The structure of the communication profiles . 13
5.2.1 Overview . 13
5.2.2 The IEC 61334-4-32 profile . 14
5.2.3 The TCP-UDP/IPv4 profile . 14
5.2.4 The TCP-UDP/IPv6 profile . 14
5.3 Lower protocol layers and their use. 14
5.3.1 General . 14
5.3.2 Physical layer . 14
5.3.3 MAC layer. 15
5.4 Service mapping and convergence layers . 17
5.4.1 Overview . 17
5.4.2 The IEC 61334-4-32 LLC SSCS . 17
5.4.3 The IPv4 SSCS. 19
5.4.4 The IPv6 SSCS. 21
5.5 Registration and connection management . 22
5.5.1 Overview . 22
5.5.2 IEC 61334-4-32 profile . 22
5.5.3 TCP-UDP/IPv4 profile . 27
5.5.4 TCP-UDP/IPv6 profile . 40
6 Identification and addressing schemes . 55
6.1 IEC 61334-4-32 profile addressing . 55
6.1.1 Overview . 55
6.1.2 MAC address . 56
6.1.3 IEC 61334-4-32 SSCS addresses . 56
6.1.4 LLC addresses . 56
6.2 TCP-UDP/IPv4 profile addressing . 57
6.3 TCP-UDP/IPv6 profile addressing . 57
7 Specific consideration for the application layer services . 57
7.1 Overview. 57
7.2 Application Association (AA) establishment and release: ACSE services . 57
7.2.1 AA establishment: IEC 61334-4-32 profile. 57
7.2.2 AA establishment: IP based profile . 58
7.2.3 Application association release . 59
7.3 xDLMS services . 59
7.4 Security mechanisms . 59
7.4.1 DLMS/COSEM security . 59

7.4.2 Lower layers security . 59
7.5 Transferring long application messages . 59
7.6 Media access, bandwidth and timing considerations . 60
7.7 Other considerations . 60
8 Communication configuration and management . 60
9 The COSEM application process . 60
10 Additional considerations for the use of this profile . 60
Annex A (informative) Examples . 61
A.1 Data exchange between two IP communication peers . 61
A.2 Joining a multicast group . 63
A.3 PRIME encoding examples . 63
Annex B (normative) New COSEM interfaces classes and OBIS codes . 76
Annex C (informative) IEC 61334-4-32 profile: Error cases during connection

establishment . 77
Annex D (normative) Convergence layer constants . 78
Bibliography . 79

Figure 1 – Communication architecture . 12
Figure 2 – OFDM PLC PRIME communication profile architectures . 14
Figure 3 – IEC 61334-4-32 SSCS services . 18
Figure 4 – MSC for Data services in the case of logical name referencing . 19
Figure 5 – IEC 61334-4-32 SSCS .
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