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STANDARD 62056-47
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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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INTERNATIONAL IEC
STANDARD 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 Scope ...............................................................................................................................5
2 Normative references .......................................................................................................5
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations ................................................................................6
4 Overview ..........................................................................................................................6
5 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
6 The COSEM connection-oriented, TCP-based transport layer ......................................... 14
6.1 General ................................................................................................................. 14
6.2 Service specification for the COSEM TCP-based transport layer ........................... 15
6.3 Protocol specification for the COSEM TCP-based transport layer .......................... 25
Annex A (informative) Converting OSI-style transport layer services to and from RFC-
style 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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ELECTRICITY METERING –
DATA EXCHANGE FOR METER READING,
TARIFF AND LOAD CONTROL –
Part 47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks
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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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The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
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13/1386/FDIS 13/1397/RVD
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Data exchange for meter reading, tariff and load control, can be found on the IEC website.
A bilingual version of the publication may be issued at a later date.
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ELECTRICITY METERING –
DATA EXCHANGE FOR METER READING,
TARIFF AND LOAD CONTROL –
Part 47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks
1 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.
2 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
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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.
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations
3.1 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 Abbreviations
APDU Application Layer Protocol Data Unit

COSEM COmpanion Specification for Energy Metering
COSEM_on_IP The TCP-UDP/IP based COSEM communication profile
IP Internet Protocol
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PAR Positive Acknowledgement with Retransmission
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
UDP User Datagram Protocol
WPDU Wrapper Protocol Data Unit
4 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 connection-
oriented 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.
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Application / Data models

WEB COSEM
Files
pages interface model
Standard application protocols

COSEM AL
e.g. FTP e.g. HTTP
... ACSE + xDLMS
Wrapper
Internet Transport Layer (UDP & TCP)
Internet Network layer (IPv4)
Data Link Layer
Physical Layer
Figure 1 – COSEM as a standard Internet application protocol
As the COSEM application layer specified in IEC 62056-53 uses and provides OSI-style
services, a wrapper has been introduced between the UDP/TCP layers and the COSEM
application layer.
Therefore, the COSEM transport layers consist of a wrapper sub-layer and the UDP or TCP
transport layer.
The wrapper sub-layer is a lightweight, nearly state-less entity: its main function is to adapt
the OSI-style service set, provided by the COSEM transport layer, to UDP or TCP function
calls and vice versa.
In addition, the wrapper sub-layer has the following functions:
• it provides an additional addressing capability (wPort) on top of the UDP/TCP port;

• it provides information about the length of the data transported. This feature helps the
sender to send and the receiver to recognize the reception of a complete APDU, which
may be sent and received in multiple TCP packets.
As specified in IEC 62056-53, B.3.3, the COSEM application layer is listening only on one
UDP or TCP port. On the other hand, as defined in IEC 62056-62, a COSEM physical device
may host several client application processes or server logical devices. The additional
addressing capability provided by the wrapper sub-layer allows identifying these application
processes.
The structure of the COSEM transport layer and their place in COSEM-on_IP is shown in
Figure 2.
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COSEM Application Process TCP Connection COSEM Application Process

Manager
COSEM application COSEM application
layer services layer services
TCP-DISCONNECT services
TCP-CONNECT services
COSEM Application Layer COSEM Application Layer
COSEM connectionless TCP- COSEM

transport services ABORT.ind connection-oriented
UDP-DATA.req/.ind/(.cnf) transport services
TCP-DATA.req/.ind/(.cnf)
COSEM UDP-based Transport Layer COSEM TCP-based Transport Layer
COSEM Wrapper COSEM Wrapper

TCP function calls
UDP function calls
active/passive OPEN,
SEND, RECEIVE
SEND, RECEIVE
Internet UDP Internet TCP
IP and lower layers IP and lower layers
a) the UDP-based profile b) the TCP-based profile
Figure 2 – Transport layers of the COSEM_on_IP profile
The service user of the UDP-DATA and the TCP-DATA services is the COSEM application
layer. On the other hand, the service user of the TCP-CONNECT and TCP-DISCONNECT
services is the TCP Connection Manager Process. The COSEM TCP-based transport layer
also provides a TCP-ABORT.indication service to the service user COSEM application layer.
5 The COSEM connection-less, UDP-based transport layer
5.1 General
The COSEM connection-less transport layer is based on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
as specified in STD0006.
UDP provides a procedure for application programs to send messages to other programs with
a minimum of protocol mechanism. On the one hand, the protocol is transaction oriented, and
delivery and duplicate protection are not guaranteed. On the other hand, UDP is simple, it
adds a minimum of overhead, it is efficient and easy to use. Several well-known Internet
applications, like SNMP, DHCP, TFTP, etc. take advantage of these performance benefits,
either because some datagram applications do not need to be reliable or because the
required reliability mechanism is ensured by the application itself. Request/response type
applications, like a confirmed COSEM application association established on the COSEM
UDP-based transport layer, then invoking confirmed COSEM data communication services is
a good example for this second category. Another advantage of UDP is that being connection-
less, it is easily capable of multi- and broadcasting.
UDP basically provides an upper interface to the IP layer, with an additional identification
capability, the UDP port number. This allows distinguishing between application processes,
hosted in the same physical device and identified by its IPv4 address 2.
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2 The addressing/identification scheme for the COSEM_on_IP profiles is defined in IEC 62056-53, B.3.3.
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As already mentioned in Clause 4, the COSEM application layer is listening only on one UDP
port. On the other hand, as defined in IEC 62056-62, a COSEM physical device may host
several client application processes or server logical devices. The additional addressing
capability provided by the wrapper sub-layer, using the wrapper port (wPort) numbers on top
of the UDP/TCP port numbers allows identifying these application processes.
The wrapper also adds length information to the APDU to be transported.
5.2 Service specification for the COSEM UDP-based transport layer
5.2.1 General
The COSEM UDP-based transport layer provides the same set of services both at the Client
and at the Server sides, as shown in Figure 3.
COSEM Client Application Process COSEM Server Application Process
COSEM Client Application Layer COSEM Server Application Layer

UDP-DATA.req
UDP-DATA.req
UDP-DATA.ind
UDP-DATA.cnf
UDP-DATA.ind
UDP-DATA.cnf
COSEM UDP-based Transport Layer COSEM UDP-based Transport Layer

Wrapper Wrapper
N M
UDP UDP
IP IP
Lower layers: Data link and Physical Lower layers: Data link and Physical
Figure 3 – Services of the COSEM connection-less, UDP-based transport layer
The COSEM UDP-based transport layer provides only data communication services: the
connection-less UDP-DATA services. The service set for the UDP-DATA services is the same
at both the client and server sides: consequently, the service specification for these services
is the same for both the client and server transport layers.
The .request and .indication service primitives are mandatory. The implementation of the local
.confirm service primitive is optional.
NOTE The APDU pre-fixed with the header by the wrapper sub-layer must fit in a single UDP datagram.

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Figure 1 – COSEM as a standard Internet application protocol ...............................................7

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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION

Part 47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks

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The text of this standard is based on the following documents:

FDIS Report on voting

A bilingual version of the publication may be issued at a later date.

62056-47 © IEC:2006(E) –5–

Part 47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks

These communication profiles contain a connection-less and a connection-oriented transport

IEC 60050-300:2001, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) – Electrical and

IEC 62051:1999, Electricity metering – Glossary of terms

STD0005 – Internet Protocol

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STD0006 – User Datagram Protocol

STD0007 – Transmission Control Protocol

See also Bibliography for other related Internet RFCs.

3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations

3.1 Terms and definitions

APDU Application Layer Protocol Data Unit

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Application / Data models

Standard application protocols

Internet Transport Layer (UDP & TCP)

Internet Network layer (IPv4)

Data Link Layer

Figure 1 – COSEM as a standard Internet application protocol

In addition, the wrapper sub-layer has the following functions:

• it provides an additional addressing capability (wPort) on top of the UDP/TCP port;

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COSEM Application Process TCP Connection COSEM Application Process

COSEM connectionless TCP- COSEM

COSEM UDP-based Transport Layer COSEM TCP-based Transport Layer

COSEM Wrapper COSEM Wrapper

Internet UDP Internet TCP

IP and lower layers IP and lower layers

a) the UDP-based profile b) the TCP-based profile

Figure 2 – Transport layers of the COSEM_on_IP profile

5 The COSEM connection-less, UDP-based transport layer

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The wrapper also adds length information to the APDU to be transported.

5.2 Service specification for the COSEM UDP-based transport layer

COSEM Client Application Process COSEM Server Application Process

COSEM Client Application Layer COSEM Server Application Layer

COSEM UDP-based Transport Layer COSEM UDP-based Transport Layer

Figure 3 – Services of the COSEM connection-less, UDP-based transport layer

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