The role of communication systems in smart grids: Architectures, technical solutions and research challenges

By Emilio Ancillotti, Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti. Computer Communications, 2013

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The purpose of this survey is to present a critical overview of smart grid concepts, with a special focus on the role that communication, networking and middleware technologies will have in the transformation of existing electric power systems into smart grids. First of all we elaborate on the key technological, economical and societal drivers for the development of smart grids. By adopting a data-centric perspective we present a conceptual model of communication systems for smart grids, and we identify functional components, technologies, network topologies and communication services that are needed to support smart grid communications. Then, we introduce the fundamental research challenges in this field including communication reliability and timeliness, QoS support, data management services, and autonomic behaviors. Finally, we discuss the main solutions proposed in the literature for each of them, and we identify possible future research directions.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Athar Ali Khan
2. Noël Crespi
3. Martin Reisslein
4. Eleonora Borgia
5. Mubashir Husain Rehmani
6. Alexandre Mouradian
7. Lalit Chettri
8. Rabindranath Bera

In Control and Systems Engineering

1. Mubashir Husain Rehmani
2. Athar Ali Khan
3. Noël Crespi
4. Martin Reisslein
5. Alexandre Mouradian

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Mubashir Husain Rehmani
2. Rebecca Copeland
3. Athar Ali Khan
4. Noël Crespi
5. Yasir Saleem
6. Martin Reisslein
7. Eleonora Borgia
8. Alexandre Mouradian

Citations in the corpus

• Cognitive Radio for Smart Grids: Survey of Architectures, Spectrum Sensing Mechanisms, and Networking Protocols (2016, background): “power efficiency [82], [138], [139].”
• The Internet of Things vision: Key features, applications and open issues (2014, background): “The smart grid is defined as an intelligent electrical distribution system that delivers energy flows from producers to consumers in a bidirectional way [25].”
• Internet of Things-Aided Smart Grid: Technologies, Architectures, Applications, Prototypes, and Future Research Directions (2017, background): “attention from grid operators because of its interoperability with existing IP-based networks [228].”