{"title":"Spatiotemporal load curve data cleansing and imputation via sparsity and low rank","authors":"G. Mateos, G. Giannakis","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486060","url":null,"abstract":"The smart grid vision is to build an intelligent power network with an unprecedented level of situational awareness and controllability over its services and infrastructure. This paper advocates statistical inference methods to robustify power monitoring tasks against the outlier effects owing to faulty readings and malicious attacks, as well as against missing data due to privacy concerns and communication errors. In this context, a novel load cleansing and imputation scheme is developed leveraging the low intrinsic-dimensionality of spatiotemporal load profiles and the sparse nature of “bad data.” A robust estimator based on principal components pursuit (PCP) is adopted, which effects a twofold sparsity-promoting regularization through an ℓ1-norm of the outliers, and the nuclear norm of the nominal load profiles. After recasting the non-separable nuclear norm into a form amenable to distributed optimization, a distributed (D-) PCP algorithm is developed to carry out the imputation and cleansing tasks using a network of interconnected smart meters. Computer simulations and tests with real load curve data corroborate the convergence and effectiveness of the novel D-PCP algorithm.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123155852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. López, C. Harris, Ivana Dusparic, S. Clarke, V. Cahill
{"title":"Reducing electricity costs in a dynamic pricing environment","authors":"E. López, C. Harris, Ivana Dusparic, S. Clarke, V. Cahill","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485978","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Grid technologies are becoming increasingly dynamic, so the use of computational intelligence is becoming more and more common to support the grid to automatically and intelligently respond to certain requests (e.g., reducing electricity costs giving a pricing history). In this work, we propose the use of a particular computational intelligence approach, denominated Distributed W-Learning, that aims to reduce electricity costs in a dynamic environment (e.g., changing prices over a period of time) by turning electric devices on (i.e., clothes dryer, electric vehicle) at residential level, at times when the electricity price is the lowest, while also, balancing the use of energy by avoiding turning on the devices at the same time. We make this problem as realistic as possible, by considering the use of real-world constraints (e.g., time to complete a task, boundary times within which a device can be used). Our results clearly indicate that the use of computational intelligence can be beneficial in this type of dynamic and complex problems.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115156638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Price and output control in a community power network with renewable generations","authors":"Jiazhen Zhou, R. Hu, Xuping Zhang, Y. Qian","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486047","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing popularity of the renewable generation sources these days, we are facing the great challenges on how to integrate them into a community distribution network smoothly. The variability of renewable generation makes it difficult to maintain the voltage stability. As a widely accepted solution that requires the least change on the substation controllers, the output of a renewable generator needs to be controlled so that no power is injected from a distribution network substation into a transmission network. In this paper, we design a control policy that regulates the power output from the renewable generators. We further leverage the price control to discourage non-collaborative behaviors so that this policy can not only guarantee the stability of the distribution network, but also ensure the fairness of generators in case of non-collaborations. Through simulations we demonstrate that this policy enables us to integrate renewable generations to achieve their benefits while limiting their disadvantages.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134209953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Malicious ramp-induced temporal data attack in power market with look-ahead dispatch","authors":"Dae-Hyun Choi, Le Xie","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486005","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new class of cyber attack on state estimation, which may lead to financial arbitrage in power markets with time-coupled look-ahead dispatch models. It is shown that in look-ahead dispatch, attackers can manipulate the limits of ramp constraints of generators, withhold their generation capacity, and consequently make a profit. The feasibility and economic impact of such cyber attacks on real-time electricity market operations are illustrated in the IEEE 14-bus system.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131597303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robust distributed energy management for microgrids with renewables","authors":"Yu Zhang, Nikolaos Gatsis, G. Giannakis","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486036","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the low communication overhead and robustness to failures, distributed energy management is of paramount importance in smart grids, especially in microgrids, which feature distributed generation (DG). Distributed economic dispatch for a microgrid with renewable penetration and demand-side management operating in the grid-connected mode is considered in this paper. To address the challenge of intrinsically stochastic availability of renewable energy sources (RES), a novel power scheduling approach involving the actual renewable energy as well as the energy traded with the main grid is introduced, effecting the supply-demand balance. Its optimality amounts to minimizing the microgrid net cost, which includes conventional DG cost as well as worst-case transaction cost stemming from the uncertainty in RES. Leveraging the dual decomposition, the optimization problem formulated is solved in a distributed fashion. Numerical results are reported to corroborate the effectiveness of the novel approach.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114470260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wide area PMU communication over a WiMAX network in the smart grid","authors":"Reduan H. Khan, J. Khan","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485981","url":null,"abstract":"One of the key building blocks of the future smart grid is a wide area monitoring and control (WAMC) system that continuously monitors the health of the grid using the phasor measurement units (PMUs). Measurements from the PMUs are strictly delay-sensitive since they act as the triggering points for the underlying protection and control systems. This paper presents a detailed performance analysis of a wide area PMU communications system over a WiMAX/IEEE 802.16 network in the smart grid. It defines the basic application models and traffic requirements of a PMU communications system and maps them over the unsolicited grant service (UGS), real-time polling service (rtPS) and best-effort (BE) scheduling services of the IEEE 802.16 standard. Using a discrete event simulation model based on the OPNET simulation package, the paper evaluates the performance of these scheduling services in terms of delay, uplink data usage and signaling overheads. The results indicate that while the UGS performs best among the scheduling services, it consumes a significant amount of radio resources to achieve a tighter delay bound.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114165915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy, Vikas K. Garg, T. S. Jayram
{"title":"Prediction based storage management in the smart grid","authors":"Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy, Vikas K. Garg, T. S. Jayram","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486034","url":null,"abstract":"Economic and environmental concerns have fostered interest in incorporating greater amounts of electricity from renewable energy sources into the grid. Unfortunately, the intermittent availability of renewable power has raised a barrier to the inclusion of these sources. Distributed storage is perceived as a means to extract value from the different resources. However, the large cost of storage requires the design of algorithms that can manage intermittent resources with minimum storage size. At the same time, advances in metering, communication, and weather prediction allow real time management of energy generation, distribution and consumption based on predictions of the future. In this paper, we focus on online algorithms for local storage management that use short term predictions of intermittent renewable resource availability. In contrast to prior work, we develop algorithms that come with theoretical bounds on performance even when demand, prices and availability are arbitrary (possibly non-stochastic), and the utility functions non-concave. Our fundamental contribution is to prove how appropriate discounting of future welfare leads to storage management algorithms that exhibit excellent practical performance even in the worst-case scenario. We substantiate these theoretical guarantees with experiments that demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms and the value of storage in the smart grid.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127221015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PeHEMS: Privacy enabled HEMS and load balancing prototype","authors":"G. Kalogridis, Saraansh Dave","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486032","url":null,"abstract":"Smart grid efficient load balancing and the need for privacy are, in principle, contradictory. While richer information obtained from frequent energy readings help improve both the prediction and the control of the demand, and, effectively, improve the efficiency of the energy equilibrium production problem, it also gives rise to consumer privacy concerns. This is possible by analysing energy signatures to detect appliance usage and home living patterns of behaviour, which in effect cascades to a range of privacy invasion risks. This paper argues that the objective of energy efficiency might not necessarily be contradictory to protecting user privacy. In particular, we introduce a new notion of smart meter privacy which we call reconciled privacy and we connect it with a simple energy management algorithm that caps the energy a home may consume in 30 minute intervals by using a rechargeable battery system. System benchmarking is underpinned by formulating a methodology to assess a) utility cost savings, b) wholesale energy savings, and c) privacy protection. Our results suggest that the proposed algorithm will protect customer privacy and will improve energy production efficiency as compared with other energy management schemes. This is due to the algorithm's principle of promoting a universal consumption pattern that is close to its average, which in retrospect allows individual usage differences to be absorbed. To support this work, we use data from trials in Bristol city, which forms part of the 3eHouses EU FP7 project, and we present a prototype implementation showcasing the visualisation of privacy and energy control.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127458701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resilient end-to-end message protection for large-scale cyber-physical system communications","authors":"Young-Jin Kim, V. Kolesnikov, M. Thottan","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485982","url":null,"abstract":"Essential features of cyber-physical systems such as Smart Grid are real-time analysis of high-resolution data, which a massive number of embedded devices periodically generate, and the effective and timely response to specific analytic results obtained from the data. Therefore, mission-critical data and control messages exchanged among machines in the cyber-physical systems must be strongly protected to prevent the infrastructures from becoming vulnerable. Specifically, the protection mechanism used must be scalable, secured from an end-to-end perspective, and key exposure resilient. Moreover, there may be privacy protection required among devices that generate data, e.g., smart metering. In this paper, we show that, for large-scale cyber-physical system communications, most well-known point-to-point security schemes such as IPsec [1], TLS [2], or SRTP [3] cannot meet the scalability, extensibility, and thinness requirements. By contrast conventional group security schemes which address the limitations of the point-to-point schemes have other limitations on aspects of privacy, key exposure resiliency, and key refreshment. To address the security requirements for cyber-physical systems, we design a resilient end-to-end message protection framework, REMP, exploiting the notion of the long-term key that is given on per node basis. This long term key is assigned during the node authentication phase and is subsequently used to derive encryption keys from a random number per-message sent. Compared with conventional schemes, REMP improves privacy, message authentication, and key exposure, and without compromising scalability and end-to-end security. The tradeoff is a slight increase in computation time for message decryption and message authentication.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126361108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SCORE: Smart-Grid common open research emulator","authors":"Song Tan, Wenzhan Song, Qifen Dong, L. Tong","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485997","url":null,"abstract":"A Smart Grid is a digitally enabled electrical grid that equips with various embedded devices that can sense, communicate, compute and control. Validating, analyzing and evaluating new ideas and technologies in Smart Grid require the modeling and emulating of both communication network and power network, as well as the interactions between them. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of Smart-Grid Common Open Research Emulator (SCORE), the first integrated Smart Grid emulator of both power and communication network. Comparing to the existing works of co-simulation of Smart Grid, SCORE (as an emulator) will significantly reduce the development and test time of new ideas, since the same application program running in SCORE can be easily ported to embedded devices with little or no modification. SCORE supports large-scale emulations since it can be run across multiple network connected computers.","PeriodicalId":143915,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128506250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}