INTERNATIONAL STANDARD

IEC 62056-47
First edition 2006-11

Electricity metering Data exchange for meter reading, tariff and load control Part 47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD...........................................................................................................................3 1 2 3 4 5 Scope ...............................................................................................................................5 Normative references .......................................................................................................5 Terms, definitions and abbreviations ................................................................................6 Overview ..........................................................................................................................6 The COSEM connection-less, UDP-based transport layer .................................................8 5.1 General ...................................................................................................................8 5.2 Service specification for the COSEM UDP-based transport layer .............................9 5.3 Protocol specification for the COSEM UDP-based transport layer.......................... 12 The COSEM connection-oriented, TCP-based transport layer ......................................... 14 6.1 6.2 6.3 General ................................................................................................................. 14 Service specification for the COSEM TCP-based transport layer ........................... 15 Protocol specification for the COSEM TCP-based transport layer .......................... 25

Annex A (informative) Converting OSI-style transport layer services to and from RFCstyle TCP function calls ........................................................................................................ 32 Bibliography.......................................................................................................................... 38 INDEX .................................................................................................................................. 39 Figure 1 COSEM as a standard Internet application protocol ...............................................7 Figure 2 Transport layers of the COSEM_on_IP profile ........................................................8 Figure 3 Services of the COSEM connection-less, UDP-based transport layer .....................9 Figure 4 The wrapper protocol data unit (WPDU) ............................................................... 13 Figure 5 The COSEM connection-less, UDP-based transport layer PDU (UDP-PDU) ......... 13 Figure 6 Services of the COSEM connection-oriented, TCP-based transport layer ............. 16 Figure 7 The TCP packet format ........................................................................................ 26 Figure 8 Figure TCP connection establishment .................................................................. 27 Figure 9 Disconnecting a TCP connection .......................................................................... 28 Figure 10 Data communication using the COSEM TCP-based transport layer .................... 30 Figure 11 High-level state transition diagram for the wrapper sub-layer ............................. 30 Figure A.1 TCP connection state diagram .......................................................................... 32 Figure A.2 MSC and state transitions for establishing a transport layer and TCP connection ............................................................................................................................ 33 Figure A.3 MSC and state transitions for closing a transport layer and TCP connection ..... 34 Figure A.4 Polling the TCP sub-layer for TCP abort indication ........................................... 35 Figure A.5 Sending an APDU in three TCP packets ........................................................... 36 Figure A.6 Receiving the message in several packets ........................................................ 37 Table 1 Reserved wrapper Port numbers in the UDP-based COSEM profile ....................... 14

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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION ____________ ELECTRICITY METERING DATA EXCHANGE FOR METER READING, TARIFF AND LOAD CONTROL Part 47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks FOREWORD
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International Standard IEC 62056-47 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 13: Equipment for electrical energy measurement and load control.
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ELECTRICITY METERING DATA EXCHANGE FOR METER READING, TARIFF AND LOAD CONTROL Part 47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks

Scope

This part of IEC 62056 specifies the transport layers for COSEM communication profiles for use on IPv4 networks. These communication profiles contain a connection-less and a connection-oriented transport layer, providing OSI-style services to the service user COSEM application layer. The connection-less transport layer is based on the Internet standard User Datagram Protocol. The connection-oriented transport layer is based on the Internet standard Transmission Control Protocol. Although the major part of the COSEM transport layers is the UDP and TCP as they are specified in the relevant Internet standards, they include an additional sub-layer, called wrapper. Annex A shows how the OSI-style transport layer services can be converted to and from UDP and TCP function calls.

Normative references

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. IEC 60050-300:2001, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) Electrical and electronic measurements and measuring instruments Part 311: General terms relating to measurements Part 312: General terms relating to electrical measurements Part 313: Types of electrical measuring instruments Part 314: Specific terms according to the type of instrument. IEC 62051:1999, Electricity metering Glossary of terms IEC 62051-1:2004, Ed.1., Electricity metering Data exchange for meter reading, tariff and load control Glossary of terms Part 1: Terms related to data exchange with metering equipment using DLMS/COSEM IEC 62056-53, Electricity metering Data exchange for meter reading, tariff and load control Part 53: COSEM application layer 3 IEC 62056-62, Electricity metering Data exchange for meter reading, tariff and load control Part 62: Interface classes 3 STD0005 Internet Protocol Author: J. Postel Date: September 1981 Also: RFC0791, RFC0792, RFC0919, RFC0922, RFC0950, RFC1112

6 STD0006 User Datagram Protocol Author: J. Postel Date: 28 August 1980 Also: RFC0768 STD0007 Transmission Control Protocol Author: J. Postel Date: September 1981 Also: RFC0793 See also Bibliography for other related Internet RFCs.

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Terms, definitions and abbreviations

Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the definitions given in IEC 60050-300, IEC 62051 and IEC 62051-1 apply. 3.2 APDU COSEM COSEM_on_IP IP PDU PAR TCP UDP WPDU Abbreviations Application Layer Protocol Data Unit COmpanion Specification for Energy Metering The TCP-UDP/IP based COSEM communication profile Internet Protocol Protocol Data Unit Positive Acknowledgement with Retransmission Transmission Control Protocol User Datagram Protocol Wrapper Protocol Data Unit

Overview

This standard specifies two transport layers for the COSEM_on_IP communication profiles: a connection-less transport layer, based on UDP, Internet standard STD0006 and a connectionoriented transport layer, based on TCP, Internet standard STD0007. In these profiles, the COSEM application layer uses the services of one of these transport layers, which use then the services of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) network layer to communicate with other nodes connected to the abstract IPv4 network. When used in these profiles, the COSEM application layer can be considered as another Internet standard application protocol (like the well-known HTTP, FTP or SNMP) and it may co-exist with other Internet application protocols, as shown in Figure 1.