Communication overlays and agents for dependable smart power grids

Author

Deconinck, Geert ; Labeeuw, Wouter ; Vandael, Stijn ; Beitollahi, Hakem ; De Craemer, Klaas ; Duan, Rui ; Qui, Zhifeng ; Ramaswamy, Parvathy Chittur ; Meerssche, Bert Vande ; Vervenne, Isabelle ; Belmans, Ronnie

Author_Institution

ESAT, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

fYear

2010

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Smart grids rely on a dependable information infrastructure for the monitoring and control applications. Two elements can enhance the suitability of the communication and control infrastructure for such smart grid applications. Overlay networks allow to resiliently deal with nodes that appear and disappear, as well as with the dynamic nature of the power values these nodes represent in a smart grid. Agents-based modelling allows to simulate the smart grid applications in a scalable and flexible way before deployment. The paper discusses how both approaches can be combined for simulating a more dependable smart grid.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; multi-agent systems; smart power grids; agents-based modelling; communication agents; communication infrastructure; communication overlays; control applications; control infrastructure; dependable information infrastructure; dependable smart power grids; dynamic nature; monitoring applications; overlay networks; power values; smart grid applications; Electricity; Generators; Multiagent systems; Optimization; Peer to peer computing; Semantics; Smart grids; intelligent grid; multi-agent system; overlay networks; power systems; smart grid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Critical Infrastructure (CRIS), 2010 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8080-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CRIS.2010.5617536

Filename

5617536