Communication infrastructure for emerging transmission-level smart grid applications

Author

Dong, Y. ; Kezunovic, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper investigates new applications in transmission system operation, protection and maintenance and discusses concerns in designing communication infrastructure to implement these applications. Requirements from such applications are highlighted by study of use cases. Standards associated with data format, communication protocols and cyber security are then identified. A generic communication infrastructure and problems in selection of communication technologies for the new applications are addressed at last.

Keywords

power system protection; power system security; smart power grids; communication protocols; cyber security; data format; emerging transmission; generic communication infrastructure; level smart grid applications; transmission system operation; Fault location; Maintenance engineering; Real time systems; Smart grids; Standards; Substations; communication infrastructure; protection and maintenance; smart grid; system operation; transmission system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1000-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2011.6039640

Filename

6039640