Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan, Hao Zhu, A. Khodaei, Nikolaos Gatsis
{"title":"Online Demand Response of Voltage-Dependent Loads for Corrective Grid De-Congestion","authors":"Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan, Hao Zhu, A. Khodaei, Nikolaos Gatsis","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909695","url":null,"abstract":"During grid overload or upon occurrence of certain contingencies, a corrective action is required to eliminate congestion and reduce transmission line thermal limit violations. In this paper, we propose to use demand-responsive loads for such a purpose. Cost considerations include power retrieved from the slack reserves and the dis-utility of consumers for providing demand-response actions. Violations of voltage and generator reactive power limits are also accounted for. The idea is to topologically re-arrange the consumption of flexible loads to achieve grid de-congestion while maintaining the aggregate network power consumption constant to avoid interference with frequency control procedures. Our formulation is based on nonlinear power flows and easily allows the inclusion of voltage-dependent loads. An online gradient projection algorithm with closed-form updates is developed to solve the non-convex grid de-congestion problem. Approximate gradient calculations based on fast-decoupled load flow are further provided to simplify the algorithm and make it amenable to distributed implementation.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"436 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113999475","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":"Estimation of Behind-the-Meter Solar Generation by Integrating Physical with Statistical Models","authors":"Farzana Kabir, N. Yu, W. Yao, Rui Yang, Y. Zhang","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909743","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate estimation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation is crucial for distribution grid control and optimization. Unfortunately, most of the residential solar PV installations are behind-the-meter. Thus, utilities only have access to the net load readings. This paper presents an unsupervised framework for estimating solar PV generation by disaggregating the net load readings. The proposed framework synergistically combines a physical PV system performance model with a statistical model for load estimation. Specifically, our algorithm iteratively estimates solar PV generation with a physical model and electric load with the Hidden Markov model regression. The proposed algorithm is also capable of estimating the key technical parameters of the solar PV systems. Our proposed method is validated against net load and solar PV generation data gathered from residential customers located in Austin, Texas. The validation results show that our method reduces mean squared error by 44% compared to the state-of-the-art disaggregation algorithm.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122911188","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":"Research on High-precision Time Distribution Mechanism of Multi-source Power Grid Based on MEC","authors":"Y. Li, Cong Li, Guidong Wu, Chenyu Zhang","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909696","url":null,"abstract":"The coordination of various terminals in the power grid requires time consistency. If there is an error in time synchronization, it will cause time misalignment and difficulties in grid data analysis. Due to the existence of massive terminals in the power grid, the existing time synchronization technology cannot be applied to the big data scenario for multi-source grid. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) effectively combines Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile network technologies to achieve a more flexible time distribution mechanism and more accurate edge-side time synchronization accuracy. MEC and Precision Time Protocol(PTP) are applied to time distribution for the power grid in this paper. And a high-precision time distribution mechanism based on MEC for multi-source power grid is described in this paper. Simulation results show that the time synchronization accuracy can be improved by using MEC for time distribution.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131096798","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}
Alexandre Rio, Y. Maurel, Olivier Barais, Yoran Bugni
{"title":"Benefits of Energy Management Systems on local energy efficiency, an agricultural case study","authors":"Alexandre Rio, Y. Maurel, Olivier Barais, Yoran Bugni","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909742","url":null,"abstract":"Energy efficiency is a concern impacting both ecology and economy. Most approaches aiming at reducing the energy impact of a site focus on only one specific aspect of the ecosystem: appliances, local generation or energy storage.A trade-off analysis of the many factors to consider is challenging and must be supported by tools. This paper proposes a Model-Driven Engineering approach mixing all these concerns into one comprehensive model. This model can then be used to size either local production means, either energy storage capacity and also help to analyze differences between technologies. It also enables process optimization by modeling activity variability: it takes the weather into account to give regular feedback to the end user. This approach is illustrated by simulation using real consumption and local production data from a representative agricultural site. We show its use by: sizing solar panels, by choosing between battery technologies and specification and by evaluating different demand response scenarios while examining the economic sustainability of these choices.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132541831","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}
H. Hao, Yuchen Wang, Yi Shi, Zhenyu Li, Yiling Wu, Chenwan Li
{"title":"IoT-G: A Low-Latency and High-Reliability Private Power Wireless Communication Architecture for Smart Grid","authors":"H. Hao, Yuchen Wang, Yi Shi, Zhenyu Li, Yiling Wu, Chenwan Li","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909773","url":null,"abstract":"Communication network has become an essential part of smart grid infrastructure and is under fundamental change within the energy industry. Clear trends indicate that utilities are looking for an upgrade of communication solutions that are able to support massive connections, higher data rate, and lower latency. To achieve this goal, ownership or self-licensing is seen by the utilities as a much more cost effective method of accessing the spectrum. Nevertheless, for many countries, existing narrowband spectrum allocation are likely to remain unchanged for five to ten years due to existing licensed systems under operation. To avoid the difficulty of spectrum refarming, this paper introduces an innovative communication technology – Internet of Things-Grid (IoT-G) – which achieves excellent broadband transmission performances by aggregating existing fragmented narrowband spectrum. This technology inherits several key air interface design elements of 3GPP Release 15 IoT features as well as a number of low-latency design concepts from 3GPP 5G systems. Building upon the cellular ecosystem, IoT-G has a mature industrial chain including end-to-end chipsets, terminals and network equipment. It has passed multiple field tests in 2018, and is planned for large-scale nationwide deployment in 7 provinces and 22 cities in China in 2019.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134061019","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":"Reliable Streaming and Synchronization of Smart Meter Data over Intermittent Data Connections","authors":"Chenfeng Zhu, A. Reinhardt","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909705","url":null,"abstract":"More and more smart meters are being rolled out in domestic and commercial buildings as well as industrial sites worldwide. They enable the timely and fine-grained monitoring of electrical energy generation and consumption. Besides storing measured data locally, most smart meters are equipped with communication interfaces to transfer collected readings to metering service providers. This not only allows for accurate billing, but also enables the extraction of additional information from collected data, particularly when they have been sampled at a high temporal resolution. The communication link used to exchange meter data can, however, be prone to disruptions and transmission errors. Consequently, while consumption data used for billing purposes might only be removed from a smart meter’s internal buffer when they have been reported correctly, intermediate readings can be irrevocably lost during communication link outages. Because such readings are often useful for analytics purposes, their loss should be avoided. We hence propose a hybrid data transmission scheme that combines the real-time reporting of consumption readings with a background synchronization process that ensures the lossless exchange of data. We evaluate our design in a practical setting and demonstrate its efficacy in recovering data after the metering device has been physically disconnected from the network.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114795367","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":"Quantum-Sim: An Open-Source Co-Simulation Platform for Quantum Key Distribution-Based Smart Grid Communications","authors":"William Lardier, Quentin Varo, Jun Yan","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909806","url":null,"abstract":"Grid modernization efforts with the latest information and communication technologies will significantly benefit smart grids in the coming years. More optical fibre communications between consumers and the control center will promise better demand response and customer engagement, yet the increasing attack surface and man-in-the-middle (MITM) threats can result in security and privacy challenges. Among the studies for more secure smart grid communications, quantum key distribution protocols (QKD) have emerged as a promising option. To bridge the theoretical advantages of quantum communication to its practical utilization, however, comprehensive investigations have to be conducted with realistic cyber-physical smart grid structures and scenarios. To facilitate research in this direction, this paper proposes an open-source, research-oriented co-simulation platform that orchestrates cyber and power simulators under the MOSAIK framework. The proposed platform allows flexible and realistic power flow-based co-simulation of quantum communications and electrical grids, where different cyber and power topologies, QKD protocols, and attack threats can be investigated. Using quantum-based communication under MITM attacks, the paper presented detailed case studies to demonstrate how the platform enables quick setup of a lowvoltage distribution grid, implementation of different protocols and cryptosystems, as well as evaluations of both communication efficiency and security against MITM attacks. The platform has been made available online to empower researchers in the modelling of quantum-based cyber-physical systems, pilot studies on quantum communications in smart grid, as well as improved attack resilience against malicious intruders.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123863687","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":"Impulse Noise Mitigation Using Subcarrier Coding of OFDM-MFSK Scheme in Powerline Channel","authors":"Oluwafemi Kolade, Ling Cheng","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909718","url":null,"abstract":"The powerline channel is classified as harsh due to its original design which was not intended for communication. Permutation codes have shown to combine efficiently with ${M}$-ary frequency shift keying (MFSK) in order to mitigate the effects of impulse noise in the powerline channel. The use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with ${M}$-ary frequency shift keying (OFDM-MFSK) also allows non-coherent detection and is efficient in environments where estimation of the channel is challenging. This paper proposes an OFDM-MFSK based subcarrier coding in the frequency domain using permutation codes. This scheme aims at improving the bit error rate (BER) performance by mitigating against the effects of impulse noise in the powerline channel. Subcarrier detection using the soft information from the received subcarriers is also possible, thereby increasing the BER while reducing the complexity of the scheme for a large number of subcarriers.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121925837","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}
G. Prasad, Yinjia Huo, L. Lampe, Victor C. M. Leung
{"title":"Machine Learning Based Physical-Layer Intrusion Detection and Location for the Smart Grid","authors":"G. Prasad, Yinjia Huo, L. Lampe, Victor C. M. Leung","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909779","url":null,"abstract":"Security and privacy of smart grid communication data is crucial given the nature of the continuous bidirectional information exchange between the consumer and the utilities. Data security has conventionally been ensured using cryptographic techniques implemented at the upper layers of the network stack. However, it has been shown that security can be further enhanced using physical layer (PHY) methods. To aid and/or complement such PHY and upper layer techniques, in this paper, we propose a PHY design that can detect and locate not only an active intruder but also a passive eavesdropper in the network. Our method can either be used as a stand-alone solution or together with existing techniques to achieve improved smart grid data security. Our machine learning based solution intelligently and automatically detects and locates a possible intruder in the network by reusing power line transmission modems installed in the grid for communication purposes. Simulation results show that our cost-efficient design provides near ideal intruder detection rates and also estimates its location with a high degree of accuracy.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122388130","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}
Chenghao Deng, Fang Yang, Xuan Liu, Hailong Zhang, Jun Ye, Changyong Pan, Jian Song
{"title":"CSMA-and-NOMA-based Random Massive Access in Power Line Communication for Smart Gird Applications","authors":"Chenghao Deng, Fang Yang, Xuan Liu, Hailong Zhang, Jun Ye, Changyong Pan, Jian Song","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2019.8909781","url":null,"abstract":"In power line communications (PLC), because of the severe channel condition, the access resource is limited and the network is unable to accommodate massive clients in future smart grid applications. However, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enable users to share the limited time and frequency resource. In this paper, an access scheme based on carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) and NOMA is proposed, where more than one user can access to the channel and transmit the packets in the same time slot and frequency band. Then, the optimal decoding order is obtained with the power allocation of primary users. To analyze the collision rate of the proposed scheme, the process of users transmitting data packets is modeled as a Markov chain, and the collision rate with higher access number is proved to be decreased. Meanwhile, the system throughput increases due to higher data rate of the multi-user channel and lower collision rate. Numerical results indicate the superior performance of the proposed protocol with high network load.","PeriodicalId":377150,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125316211","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}