Cyber Physical Systems Lab
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
West Virginia University
 


Smart Grid Communication Strategies


Advanced communication technology is the enabling factor for distributed sensing and control in smart grid.  The performance of communication has a significant effect on the performance of the controllers that manage a power system. This effect is more profound when transient level behavior and critical applications are concerned. In these cases, an important issue is to design control-aware communication strategies for utilizing available communication technologies. Such strategies should describe what needs to be communicated, when, and between which nodes.

 In this work, an “on-demand” strategy is presented that describes how communication subsystems should be configured, almost agnostically to the underlying technologies, to achieve significant performance improvement for the application. The on-demand method relies on the concept of error-dependent communication for tracking dynamical systems over communication networks. This work also introduces the design of an embedded communication simulator, integrated with PSCAD, for co-simulation of communication strategies/protocols and power system components.
 




Our PSCAD addition for simulation of communication networks and sensing and control modules




Related Papers
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  • E. Moradi Pari, N. Nasiriani, Y. P. Fallah, P. Famouri, S. Bossart, K. Dodrill, “Design, Modeling and Simulation of On-Demand Communication Mechanisms for Cyber-Physical Energy Systems”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics,  vol.10, no.4, pp.2330 - 2339,Nov. 2014, doi: 10.1109/TII.2014.2326080
  •  J. Ghorbani, Y.P. Fallah, A. Feliachi, M. Choudhry, “Investigation of Communication Media Requirements for Self-Healing Power Distribution Systems”, In proc. of IEEE EnergyTech 2013
  • N. Nasiriani, R. Ramachandran, K. Rahimi, Y. P. Fallah, P. Famouri, S. Bossart, K. Dodrill, “An Embedded Communication Network Simulator for Power Systems Simulations in PSCAD” Proc. of IEEE PES General Meeting, 2013

 


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(c) Y.P. Fallah 2011