{"title":"Performance comparison of LTE FDD and TDD based Smart Grid communications networks for uplink biased traffic","authors":"Jason Brown, J. Khan","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485996","url":null,"abstract":"LTE is a candidate wide area communications network for the Smart Grid and can enable applications such as AMI, Demand Response and WAMS. We compare the uplink performance of the LTE FDD and TDD modes for a typical Smart Grid scenario involving a large number of devices sending small to medium size packets to understand the advantages and disadvantages of these two modes. An OPNET simulation model is employed to facilitate realistic comparisons based upon latency and channel utilization. We demonstrate that there is a critical packet size above which there is a step increase in uplink latency due to the nature of the LTE uplink resource scheduling process. It is shown that FDD leads to better uplink performance in terms of latency, while TDD can provide greater flexibility when the split between uplink and downlink data is asymmetrical (as it is expected to be in a Smart Grid environment). It is also demonstrated that the capacity of both FDD and TDD systems in terms of the number of serviced devices is control channel (PDCCH) limited for small infrequent packets, but TDD has the advantage that the capacity remains data channel (PUSCH) limited for smaller packet sizes and lower data burst rates than an FDD 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":"127616253","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":"On hourly home peak load prediction","authors":"R. Singh, Peter Xiang Gao, D. Lizotte","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485977","url":null,"abstract":"The Ontario electrical grid is sized to meet peak electricity load. A reduction in peak load would allow deferring large infrastructural costs of additional power plants, thereby lowering generation cost and electricity prices. Proposed solutions for peak load reduction include demand response and storage. Both these solutions require accurate prediction of a home's peak and mean load. Existing work has focused only on mean load prediction. We find that these methods exhibit high error when predicting peak load. Moreover, a home's historic peak load and occupancy is a better predictor of peak load than observable physical characteristics such as temperature and season. We explore the use of Seasonal Auto Regressive Moving Average (SARMA) for peak load prediction and find that it has 30% lower root mean square error than best known prior methods.","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":"121577799","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":"Dynamic radio resource allocation for group paging supporting smart meter communications","authors":"Chia-Hung Wei, R. Cheng, Firas M. Al-Taee","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486061","url":null,"abstract":"Smart meter is one of the novel applications in next generation cellular networks. Group paging can effectively solve the RAN overload control problem in 3GPP LTE, but the usage efficiency of the radio resource is needed to be improved. This paper proposed a dynamic radio resource allocation algorithm to solve the inefficiency problem.","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":"126043766","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":"Trust-based geographical routing For smart grid communication networks","authors":"Ming-Sen Xiang, William Liu, Q. Bai","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486069","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Grid is the trend of next generation power distribution and management network that enable interactive communication and operation between consumers and suppliers, which can achieve intelligent resource management and optimization. The wireless mesh network technology is a promising infrastructure solution to support these smart functionalities, while it has some inherent vulnerabilities and cyber-attack risks to be addressed. As Smart Grid is heavily relying on the communication network, it makes these security concerns more critical. In this paper, we have proposed and implemented a new trust-based geographical routing protocol, named as Trust-based Intelligent Geo Elective Routing (TIGER), which is integrating the distance and trust related factors into a novel routing metric, so as to tackle above problems. The extensive simulation studies confirm that our new TIGER algorithm shows promises for synthesizing trust and distance factors to achieve better routing performance, and also guarantee the reliable communications in wireless mesh infrastructure to avoid attacks in 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":"116072470","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":"Evaluation of applicability to WAMPAC (Wide Area Monitoring Protection and Control) of IEEE 1588","authors":"F. Fujikawa","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486050","url":null,"abstract":"We examined the applicability to telecommunication networks for electric power systems applying IEEE1588 (PTP: Precision Time Protocol) as a time synchronization technology. A Peer-to-Peer method and a TC (Transparent Clock) /BC (Boundary Clock) method are suitable for WAMPAC (Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control) systems. These methods are equipped with a feature to correct the residence time in each L2 switch. According to the experimental evaluation, when we connected 50 nodes in series, the synchronization precision was estimated at about 511 ns in the Peer-to-Peer method and about 805 ns in the TC/BC method. We examined the synchronization precision using L2 switches without the PTP function. Here, when we connected 50 nodes in series, the synchronization precision was estimated at about 2580 ns. However, a high performance PTP master capable processing many slaves and a PTP slave with a sophisticated ability to process delay variation are required. Consequently, the Peer-to-Peer method or the TC/BC method is available for telecommunication networks for electric power systems, as is the use of the existing L2 switch. If we use L2 switches without the PTP function, the PTP master requires high performance and a high delay variation tolerance is required of a PTP slave.","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":"115648831","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":"Optimal demand response scheduling with Stackelberg game approach under load uncertainty for smart grid","authors":"Jiang Chen, Bo Yang, X. Guan","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486042","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a Stackelberg game approach to deal with demand response (DR) scheduling under load uncertainty based on real-time pricing (RTP) in a residential setup. We formulate the optimization problems for the service provider that acts as the leader and for the users who are the multiple followers, respectively. We derive the Stackelberg Equilibrium (SE) consisting of the optimal real-time electricity price and each user's optimal power consumption. Simulation results show the proposed DR scheduling not only can control the total power consumption, but also is beneficial to the service provider's revenue. Moreover, the load uncertainty increases the service provider's revenue and decreases each user's payoff.","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":"131590589","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":"Performance simulations of WLAN and Zigbee in electricity substation impulsive noise environments","authors":"S. Bhatti, Q. Shan, R. Atkinson, I. Glover","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486064","url":null,"abstract":"A physical layer performance evaluation of WLAN (IEEE 802.11b) and Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4) receivers in the presence of impulsive noise is presented. Broadband impulsive noise is modeled as a Symmetric Alpha-Stable process. The parameters of the impulsive noise model are estimated from data recorded from an electricity transmission substation (ETS). The results show that the performance degradation of the Zigbee receiver is small whilst the WLAN receiver may suffer more significant degradation.","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":"133462587","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":"Adaptive storage battery management based on the Energy on Demand protocol","authors":"Takekazu Kato, Kento Tamura, T. Matsuyama","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6485957","url":null,"abstract":"We proposed the concept of i-Energy [1] as a novel smart demand-side energy management scheme to realize efficient and versatile control of e-power flows among decentralized energy generation/storage devices and appliances in homes, offices, and neighboring communities. To embody the concept, we developed a novel energy management method named Energy on Demand (EoD) for a single power source [3]. This paper proposes an adaptive storage battery management method based on EoD. The novelty of the method rests in the demand-based battery capacity design and dynamic charge/discharge control. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been proved with experiments using real life data in the smart apartment room [5].","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":"115839106","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}
Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, Shiyong Yang, Zhiqiang Wang
{"title":"Risk management in Internet Data Center operations under smart grid environment","authors":"Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, Shiyong Yang, Zhiqiang Wang","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486014","url":null,"abstract":"In Internet Data Center (IDC) operations, some uncertainties are needed to be managed. Otherwise, IDC operators will be faced with a high operation risk. In existing work, electricity forward contract is adopted to minimize the IDC operation risk in smart grid environment under the assumption that workload and spot electricity price are independent. However, the above assumption is unreasonable in smart grid environment, resulting in the unsatisfactory performance of electricity forward contract. In this paper, a novel scheme is proposed to minimize the IDC operation risk in smart grid environment considering the correlation between workload and spot electricity price, based on a portfolio consisting of electricity forward contracts and electricity call (put) options in electricity derivative markets. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the IDC operation risk. Compared with electricity forward contract, the proposed scheme has more stable and better performance.","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":"114734648","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}
K. Kumar, M. Radhakrishnan, K. Sivalingam, D. Seetharam, M. Karthick
{"title":"Comparison of publish-subscribe network architectures for Smart Grid wide area monitoring","authors":"K. Kumar, M. Radhakrishnan, K. Sivalingam, D. Seetharam, M. Karthick","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486053","url":null,"abstract":"The future of the electrical power grid is the “Smart Grid” that uses a combination of digital sensing and actuation technologies. For example, Phasor Measurement Units (PMU) can be used to accurately measure the quality of power and help improve the reliability and efficiency of the grid. A specially designed network architecture is required to transport the PMU data to the data processing systems. The NASPInet framework specifies requirements (such as latency and reliability) to be met for different types of applications that will process the PMU data. The objective of this paper is to analyze suitable network architectures that can meet all the requirements of NASPInet and thus be useful for the Smart Grid. An architecture based on the publish-subscribe paradigm and a distributed hash table technique for storing meta-data about the publishers is presented. This architecture is compared to GridStat, PSIRP and Source Specific Multicast approaches, using discrete event simulation models based on OMNET++. The delay performance of these systems has been studied for different network parameters.","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":"122131675","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}