Simulation of the smart grid communications: Challenges,techniques, and future trends

This paper gives an overview of available simulation techniques to support the analysis of smart grid communications. Intelligent power grids, known as smart grids, are required as the demand for energy continues to grow and more emphasis is being placed on the supply of renewable energy. The main ingredient of smart grid is the integration of information and communication technology into the grids to monitor and regulate power generation and the demand. The impact of the communication networks on the performance of power system dynamics can only be understood through numerical simulations. This paper provides an overview of available simulation techniques for smart grid communications with a particular focus on the co-simulation frameworks and their enabling technologies. Moreover, a case study with VPNET for analyzing agent based shipboard smart grid protections considering communication impacts is provided.     

Blockchain-empowered security and privacy protection technologies for smart grid

With the rapid development in society of the economy and of computational technologies, it is particularly important to build a secure, efficient and reliable smart grid architecture to provide users with high-quality electricity services. However, data collection and energy trading in public networks creates security and privacy challenges in smart grids. Blockchain technologies have the excellent characteristics of decentralization, immutability and traceability, which can resolve the security, integration and coordination problems faced by the traditional centralized networks for smart grids. The goal of this paper is to introduce and compare blockchain-based technologies in addressing the problems of privacy protection, identity authentication, data aggregation and electricity pricing for the data collection and power energy trading processes in smart grids. In addition, the existing challenges and future research directions of smart grids are discussed.     

Emerging research topics in control for smart infrastructures

As we move deeper into the 21st century, critical infrastructures related to energy and transportation are becoming smart–monitor themselves, communicate, and most importantly self-govern. Various drivers have enabled this transition, including sustainability concerns, scarcity in resources, economic considerations, and rapid growth in enabling technologies of sensor networks, and computational and communication systems. Two notable examples of such infrastructures are smart grids and smart cities. The idea behind a Smart grid is the creation of a dynamic, cyber-physical infrastructure that meets the challenges of intermittency and distributed availability of renewables, and realizes reduced operational costs and emissions, via a flexible, intelligent, and networked grid that plans, controls, and balances supply and demand over an entire region. The concept of a Smart City is gaining popular attention driven by goals of sustainability and efficiency, the needs of enhancing quality of life and affordability, growing urbanization of the world’s population, and the explosion of technological advances in communication and computation. While systems and control problems abound in any complex dynamic system, two characteristics that are specific to critical infrastructures are the need to deliver reliable service and the ability to accomplish this goal amidst constrained resources. These in turn lead to new research topics in systems and control including empowered consumers, transactive control, and resilience. The focus of this paper is on these emerging topics. Their role in smart infrastructures, the opportunities they provide, and the research challenges that they bring in are all discussed. Specific illustrations of recent successes are presented that are based on coordinated adjustment of generation and consumption using concepts of multi-agents and multi-timescales in smart grids and socio-technical models of empowered drivers in smart cities.     

Supply chain intelligence for electricity markets: A smart grid perspective

Smart grid technologies are bringing innovations in electrical power industries, affecting all parts of the electricity supply chain, and leading to changes in market structure, business models and services. In this paper we introduce a model of business intelligence for a smart grid supply chain. The model is developed in order to provide electricity markets with the necessary data flows and information important for the decision making process. The proposed model offers a way to efficiently leverage the new metering architecture and the new capabilities of the grid to reap immediate business value from the huge amounts of disparate data in emerging smart grids. The model was evaluated for the Serbian electricity market in the electric power transmission company Public Enterprise “Elektromre?a Srbije”. The results show that business intelligence solutions can contribute to a more effective management of smart grids, in order to ensure that companies achieve sustainability in the increasingly competitive electricity markets, while still providing the high quality services to end users.     

Heterogeneous data source integration for smart grid ecosystems based on metadata mining

The arrival of new technologies related to smart grids and the resulting ecosystem of applications and management systems pose many new problems. The databases of the traditional grid and the various initiatives related to new technologies have given rise to many different management systems with several formats and different architectures. A heterogeneous data source integration system is necessary to update these systems for the new smart grid reality. Additionally, it is necessary to take advantage of the information smart grids provide. In this paper, the authors propose a heterogeneous data source integration based on IEC standards and metadata mining. Additionally, an automatic data mining framework is applied to model the integrated information.     

Semantics and knowledge grids: building the next-generation grid

Just as the Internet is shifting its focus from information and communication to a knowledge delivery infrastructure, we see the Grid moving from computation and data management to a pervasive, worldwide knowledge management infrastructure. We have the technology to store and access data, but we seem to lack the ability to transform data tombs into useful data and extract knowledge from them. We review some of the current and future technologies that will impact the architecture, computational model, and applications of future grids. We attempt to forecast the evolution of computational grids into what we call the next-generation grid, with a particular focus on the use of semantics and knowledge discovery techniques and services. We propose a comprehensive software architecture for the next-generation grid, which integrates currently available services and components in Semantic Web, Semantic Grid, P2P, and ubiquitous systems. We'll also discuss a case study that shows how some new technologies can improve grid applications.     

A survey of communication/networking in Smart Grids

Smart Grid is designed to integrate advanced communication/networking technologies into electrical power grids to make them “smarter”. Current situation is that most of the blackouts and voltage sags could be prevented if we have better and faster communication devices and technologies for the electrical grid. In order to make the current electrical power grid a Smart Grid, the design and implementation of a new communication infrastructure for the grid are two important fields of research. However, Smart Grid projects have only been proposed in recent years and only a few proposals for forward-looking requirements and initial research work have been offered in this field. No any systematic reviews of communication/networking in Smart Grids have been conducted yet. Therefore, we conduct a systematic review of communication/networking technologies in Smart Grid in this paper, including communication/networking architecture, different communication technologies that would be employed into this architecture, quality of service (QoS), optimizing utilization of assets, control and management, etc.     

Communication network requirements for major smart grid applications in HAN,NAN and WAN

Since the introduction of the smart grid, accelerated deployment of various smart grid technologies and applications have been experienced. This allows the traditional power grid to become more reliable, resilient, and efficient. Despite such a widespread deployment, it is still not clear which communication technology solutions are the best fit to support grid applications. This is because different smart grid applications have different network requirements – in terms of data payloads, sampling rates, latency and reliability. Based on a variety of smart grid use cases and selected standards, this paper compiles information about different communication network requirements for different smart grid applications, ranging from those used in a Home Area Network (HAN), Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) and Wide-Area Network (WAN). Communication technologies used to support implementation of selected smart grid projects are also discussed. This paper is expected to serve as a comprehensive database of technology requirements and best practices for use by communication engineers when designing a smart grid network.     

A comprehensive review of the application characteristics and traffic requirements of a smart grid communications network

A robust communication infrastructure is the touchstone of a smart grid that differentiates it from the conventional electrical grid by transforming it into an intelligent and adaptive energy delivery network. To cope with the rising penetration of renewable energy sources and expected widespread adoption of electric vehicles, the future smart grid needs to implement efficient monitoring and control technologies to improve its operational efficiency. However, the legacy communication infrastructures in the existing grid are quite insufficient, if not incapable of meeting the diverse communication requirements of the smart grid. Therefore, utilities from all over the world are now facing the key challenge of finding the most appropriate technology that can satisfy their future communication needs. In order to properly assess the vast landscape of available communication technologies, architectures and protocols, it is very important to acquire detailed knowledge about the current and prospective applications of the smart grid. With a view to addressing this critical issue, this paper offers an in depth review on the application characteristics and traffic requirements of several emerging smart grid applications and highlights some of the key research challenges present in this arena.     

匿名通信系统隐藏服务定位技术研究综述

匿名通信系统诞生之初是为了保护通信实体身份的匿名性和网络中通信内容的隐私性、完整性,但随着匿名通信系统的广泛使用,其匿名性不断增强,在隐藏服务技术的支持下,匿名通信系统被不法分子滥用的情况愈演愈烈,在匿名通信系统隐藏服务技术支持下的暗网平台已然成为了"法外之地".站在网络监管部门的立场上,对匿名通信系统,尤其是匿名通信...     

基于贝叶斯序贯博弈模型的智能电网信息物理安全分析

智能电网是利用信息技术优化从供应者到消费者的电力传输和配电网络.作为一种信息物理系统（Cyber-physical system，CPS），智能电网由物理设备和负责数据计算与通信的网络组成.智能电网的诸多安全问题会出现在通信网络和物理设备这两个层面，例如注入坏数据和收集客户隐私信息的网络攻击，攻击电网物理设备的物理攻击等.本文主要研究了智能电网的系统管理员（防护者）如何确定攻击者类型，从而选择最优防护策略的问题.提出了一种贝叶斯序贯博弈模型以确定攻击者的类型，根据序贯博弈树得到博弈双方的均衡策略.首先，对类型不确定的攻击者和防护者构建静态贝叶斯博弈模型，通过海萨尼转换将不完全信息博弈转换成完全信息博弈，得到贝叶斯纳什均衡解，进而确定攻击者的类型.其次，考虑攻击者和防护者之间的序贯博弈模型，它能够有效地帮助防护者进行决策分析.通过逆向归纳法分别对两种类型的攻击者和防护者之间的博弈树进行分析，得到博弈树的均衡路径，进而得到攻击者的最优攻击策略和防护者的最优防护策略.分析表明，贝叶斯序贯博弈模型能够使防护者确定攻击者的类型，并且选择最优防护策略，从而为涉及智能电网信息安全的相关研究提供参考.     

网络空间物联网信息搜索

本篇论文总结和分析了网络空间物联网信息搜索相关研究工作,作为物联网信息搜索的综述性工作。物联网信息是网络空间中最重要的资产,在各个领域行业发挥着越来越重要的作用。探测、发现和识别网络空间中的物联网信息,已经成为了保障网络空间关键基础设施安全的前提和有效手段。本文,首先提出了网络空间物联网信息搜索的基本架构。其次,论文讨论了四类典型物联网信息的相关研究工作,包括操作系统信息、应用服务、设备种类和标识信息。网络空间存在着海量、动态和异构的物联网信息,本文总结和分析了物联网信息搜索关键技术的研究,包括探测技术和识别技术。最后,论文探讨了两类基于物联网信息搜索的应用,包括互联网空间测量和大规模安全事件分析。     

AN INTELLIGENT SELF-CONFIGURABLE MECHANISM FOR DISTRIBUTED ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS

The next generation of smart grid technologies demands intelligent capabilities for communication, interaction, monitoring, storage, and energy transmission. Multi-agent systems are envisioned to provide autonomic and adaptability features to these systems in order to gain advantage in their current environments. In this article we present a mechanism for providing distributed energy storage systems (DESSs) with intelligent capabilities. In more detail, we propose a self-configurable mechanism that allows a DESS to adapt itself according to the future environmental requirements. This mechanism is aimed at reducing the costs at which energy is purchased from the market.     

智能电网中家域网安全数据汇聚与调度方法研究

智能电网中通信网络的安全是实施智能电网的一个重要环节。用户信息的隐私保护是智能电网安全服务的一个主要任务。智能电网中用户信息隐私保护主要围绕智能电表数据的机密性和匿名性展开。本文以家域网作为智能电网通信网络的一个基本数据汇聚与调度单元,提出了一种安全的网内数据汇聚与调度方法,从而保证了智能家居设备的用电信息的机密性和匿名性。采用NS-2对本文提出的网内方法进行了仿真研究。仿真结果表明,本文提出的网内数据汇聚与调度方法与传统方法相比具有较高的实用性。     

Seamless IPv6 connectivity for two-wheelers

Communications will be a must for two-wheel vehicles integrated into future smart mobility environments. Two-wheelers will be connected with vehicular networks and smart cities, and for this to happen it is necessary not only a base technological support, but also a proper communication middleware able to maintain reachable the bike or moped through the network. In this work, we present a communication node for two-wheelers supporting network mobility and including 3G and 802.11p communication technologies. The communication unit has been designed and prototyped, and it has been provided with an IPv6 communication stack with an enhanced mobility management. The operation of the unit has been assessed in real environments, presenting good performance results and thus offering a novel platform suitable for the next generation of telematics services embracing two-wheelers.     

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GOES MOBILE

New mobile computing technologies require new paradigms for infrastructure and interaction with mobile and networked devices. For building smart mobile companions for new intelligent services, a number of challenges have to be addressed. We argue that artificial intelligence is a key to a new generation of mobile systems. In this introduction to AI in mobile systems, we present some of the challenges and solutions in this exciting field of research.     

Service Orientation and the Smart Grid state and trends

The energy market is undergoing major changes, the most notable of which is the transition from a hierarchical closed system toward a more open one highly based on a ??smart?? information-rich infrastructure. This transition calls for new information and communication technologies infrastructures and standards to support it. In this paper, we review the current state of affairs and the actual technologies with respect to such transition. Additionally, we highlight the contact points between the needs of the future grid and the advantages brought by service-oriented architectures.     

智能电网WCSN安全体系架构研究

作为下一代电力系统,智能电网应具备向电网控制中心实时可靠传输信息的能力。为了解决智能电网无线传感器网络面临的异构无线网络共存、频谱资源紧张和海量数据处理等问题,我们在智能电网引入了无线认知传感器网络的理念。文章分析了在智能电网中引入认知无线传感器网络（WCSN）的必要性,列举了智能电网、认知无线电网络和无线传感器网络的相关研究成果,描述了智能电网WCSN分层结构包括家域网、邻域网和广域网,提出了智能电网WCSN安全架构。     

Cloud-based design and manufacturing: A new paradigm in digital manufacturing and design innovation

Cloud-based design manufacturing (CBDM) refers to a service-oriented networked product development model in which service consumers are enabled to configure, select, and utilize customized product realization resources and services ranging from computer-aided engineering software to reconfigurable manufacturing systems. An ongoing debate on CBDM in the research community revolves around several aspects such as definitions, key characteristics, computing architectures, communication and collaboration processes, crowdsourcing processes, information and communication infrastructure, programming models, data storage, and new business models pertaining to CBDM. One question, in particular, has often been raised: is cloud-based design and manufacturing actually a new paradigm, or is it just “old wine in new bottles”? To answer this question, we discuss and compare the existing definitions for CBDM, identify the essential characteristics of CBDM, define a systematic requirements checklist that an idealized CBDM system should satisfy, and compare CBDM to other relevant but more traditional collaborative design and distributed manufacturing systems such as web- and agent-based design and manufacturing systems. To justify the conclusion that CBDM can be considered as a new paradigm that is anticipated to drive digital manufacturing and design innovation, we present the development of a smart delivery drone as an idealized CBDM example scenario and propose a corresponding CBDM system architecture that incorporates CBDM-based design processes, integrated manufacturing services, information and supply chain management in a holistic sense.     

基于软交换技术的电力调度交换系统研究

随着坚强智能电网建设的深入开展,基于软交换技术融合语音、视频、数据业务构建新一代电力调度交换系统成为必然趋势。在深入研究当前各个主流软交换设备厂商统一通信平台的基础上,提出了一种电力调度软交换系统架构,开发支持各厂商CTI协议的通信中间件,实现电力调度通信系统与不同厂商统一通信平台的集成。对于架构中调度服务器的基本通信业务服务功能,给出了基于CSTA协议的具体实现方法。