On the performance of consensus protocols for decentralized smart grid metering in presence of measurement uncertainty

The availability of intelligence at substation level, combined with the adoption of pervasive communication networks, offers technologies and opportunities to decentralized smart grid metering and control. In this domain self-organizing sensor networks equipped by distributed consensus protocols has been recognized as an effective enabling paradigm. The large scale deployment of this paradigm asks for comprehensive analysis aimed at assessing the impact of the non idealities characterizing the real power system environment on the cooperative protocols performance. Armed with such a vision this paper aims at characterizing the performance of distributed consensus protocols in the presence of measurement uncertainty and non-ideality of the measurement instruments in a smart grid environment.