Toni Mancini, F. Mari, I. Melatti, Ivano Salvo, E. Tronci, J. Gruber, B. Hayes, M. Prodanović, Lars Elmegaard
{"title":"Demand-aware price policy synthesis and verification services for Smart Grids","authors":"Toni Mancini, F. Mari, I. Melatti, Ivano Salvo, E. Tronci, J. Gruber, B. Hayes, M. Prodanović, Lars Elmegaard","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007745","url":null,"abstract":"In management tasks for modern electricity networks the stakeholders face typically two conflicting objectives: maximization of income (increasing demand) and reduction of demand peaks (reducing costs). To improve management of electricity distribution networks, an integrated service-based methodology is presented in this paper. Namely, the proposed approach: i) computes the operational constraints in order to improve utilization of the whole network; ii) enforces those constraints by focusing on each network substation separately; iii) verifies that probability of violating those constraints in nonnominal cases is fairly low. The feasibility of the approach has been tested tested by using a realistic scenario taken from an existing medium voltage Danish distribution network. In such scenario, the proposed method improves the network utilization and offers economic benefits for all the principal participants, i.e. DSOs, retailers and end users.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"53 1","pages":"794-799"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88345044","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":"The comparison of medium-term energy demand forecasting methods for the need of microgrid management","authors":"T. Hossa, A. Filipowska, Karol Fabisz","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007711","url":null,"abstract":"Trends on the European energy markets show that renewable energy sources take an increasingly important position in the power supply. Recent developments concern inter alia formation of microgrids, where local energy sources meet the local energy consumption demand. Consequently, it is necessary to propose effective methods for predicting demand of small groups of prosumers. Accurate forecasts of a network load enable balancing the energy supply and demand in microgrids. This article aims at presenting the research results on comparison of different methods for energy demand forecasting in the medium-term horizon. The study was based on real data concerning one year's households energy consumption. The results of this research were implemented as a part of the forecasting module in the Future Energy Management System.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"12 1","pages":"590-595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86233029","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":"Portunes: Privacy-preserving fast authentication for dynamic electric vehicle charging","authors":"Hongyang Li, G. Dán, K. Nahrstedt","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007766","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic contactless charging is an emerging technology for charging electric vehicles (EV) on the move. For efficient charging and for proper billing, dynamic charging requires secure communication between the charging infrastructure and the EVs that supports very frequent real-time message exchange for EV authentication. In this paper we propose Portunes, an authentication protocol for charging pads to authenticate an EV's identity. Portunes uses pseudonyms to provide location privacy, allows EVs to roam between different charging sections and receive a single bill, and achieves fast authentication by relying on symmetric keys and on the spatio-temporal location of the EV. We have implemented Portunes on RaspberryPi Model B with 700 MHz CPU and 512 MB RAM. Portunes allows the EV to generate authentication information within 0.3 ms, and allows charging pads to verify the information within 0.5 ms. In comparison, ECDSA signature generation and verification take over 25 ms and over 40 ms respectively.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"28 1","pages":"920-925"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85334493","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":"Reducing communication requirements for electric vehicle charging using vehicle-originating-signals","authors":"Victor del Razo, C. Goebel, H. Jacobsen","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007614","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a method for reducing the communication requirements for electric vehicle (EV) charging control based on Vehicle-Originating-Signals (VOS). The original VOS approach requires a message exchange between every EV and the aggregator for every time step. This can cause the load on communication systems to increase, especially as the number of EVs increases and the control intervals become more granular. We explore (i) the reduction of EV-originating messages, (ii) the reduction of aggregator-originating messages, and (iii) the challenges in combining both reduction methods. EVs reduce the number of messages by including possible future values in a single message. The aggregator reduces the number of messages by sending single broadcast signals. Combining both methods requires a retransmission protocol. For the evaluation, we compare the original and the improved VOS approaches on a load leveling scenario based on electricity demand, solar generation, and car mobility data from Munich, Germany. The results show that it is possible to reduce the overall message requirements with a minor effect on performance. With savings of over 70% in number of messages, these improvements contribute towards more network-friendly solutions for smart EV charging.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"2 1","pages":"7-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83510771","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}
R. Hewett, Sudeeptha Rudrapattana, Phongphun Kijsanayothin
{"title":"Smart Grid security: Deriving informed decisions from cyber attack game analysis","authors":"R. Hewett, Sudeeptha Rudrapattana, Phongphun Kijsanayothin","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007770","url":null,"abstract":"Protection of smart grids against cyber attacks has become one of the nation's top priorities. Most existing approaches have focused on intrusion detection and post-attack responses in a similar fashion to fault detection and recovery. However, attack behaviors are much more complex and less predictable than fault behaviors as an attacker often changes his course of actions during the attacks. Thus, there is a need for a systematic approach that can incorporate behaviors of attackers into the decision analysis of security management. This is especially crucial as attackers can keep advancing their techniques to outsmart security technologies. Our research aims to enhance the science of security that enables behavioral modeling as well as model extensibility. In particular, we present an analytical game theoretic approach to analyzing security of smart grid SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems by including attacker/defender behaviors in the proposed sequential, non-zero sum, and two-player game model. The paper describes the development of the game payoffs and illustrates how informed decisions can be made on a real-world scenario of attacks at the sensor level of the smart grid SCADA systems.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"23 1","pages":"946-951"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74592694","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":"Decentralized stochastic programming for real and reactive power management in distribution systems","authors":"Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan, Nikolaos Gatsis","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007649","url":null,"abstract":"The stochastic nature of solar renewable power poses challenges in distribution networks with high-penetration photovoltaic (PV) generation in terms of achieving thermal loss minimization, voltage regulation, and customer satisfaction. This paper introduces a stochastic optimization model for real and reactive power management in such distribution systems with high level of residential-scale PV penetration. Decision variables include demand response schedules of programmable loads, as well as reactive power consumption or generation by the PV inverters in a fashion adaptive to the uncertain real power generated by the PV units. A decentralized algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is developed. The algorithm features closed-form updates per node, and requires communication only between neighboring nodes. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on a typical rural distribution circuit using computer simulations. The proposed method is demonstrated to have superior voltage regulation in comparison to local reactive power control alternatives.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"271 1","pages":"218-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74208596","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}
T. Ropitault, A. Lampropulos, A. Pelov, L. Toutain, Ramanuja Vedantham, Philippe Chiummiento Itron
{"title":"Doing it right — Recommendations for RPL in PLC-based networks for the Smart Grid","authors":"T. Ropitault, A. Lampropulos, A. Pelov, L. Toutain, Ramanuja Vedantham, Philippe Chiummiento Itron","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007688","url":null,"abstract":"Narrowband powerline communications are one of the core technologies for the evolution of the power grid enabling the dialogue between the power meters and the utilities. The new environment, traffic patterns and application requirements make the choice of network protocols in these networks nontrivial. In this paper, we analyse the behavior of the Contiki RPL stack, the most popular and open implementation of the IETF RPL standard. We provide evidence why the state-of-art implementations do not behave in an optimal way for Smart Grid applications and propose mechanisms and parameter selection politics that lead to improved performance during the route formation phase of the network.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"101 1","pages":"452-457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78605720","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":"Hierarchical key management for multi-resolution load data representation","authors":"C. Peer, D. Engel, S. Wicker","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007767","url":null,"abstract":"It has been shown that information about a consumer's actions, beliefs and preferences can be extracted from high resolution load data. This information can be used in ways that violate consumer privacy. In order to increase consumer control over this information, it has been suggested that load data be represented in multiple resolutions, with each resolution secured with a different key. To make this approach work in the real-world, a suitable key management needs to be employed. In this paper, we consider a combination of multi-resolution load data representation with hierarchical key management. Emphasis is placed on a privacy-aware design that gives the end-user the freedom to decide which entity is allowed to access user related data and at what granularity.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"67 1","pages":"926-932"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83859891","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 wireless energy charging policy for a mobile node in Smart Grid environment","authors":"D. Niyato, Yang Zhang, Ping Wang, Dong In Kim","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007692","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, mobile devices are equipped with wireless energy charging capability. They can be charged wirelessly by chargers located at different locations. The prices that the chargers apply to the mobile user/node can be changed, e.g., due to the implementation of demand side management in smart grid environment. The mobile node can use this price information (e.g., obtained through wireless communication) to make its charging decision accordingly. In this paper, we study an optimal wireless energy charging policy for the mobile node. The mobile node's objective is to minimize the cost due to the price of using charging service from chargers and the cost of having not enough energy. We formulate and solve a Markov decision process to obtain such an optimal policy. Additionally, we analytically prove that the optimal charging policy has a threshold structure. That is, the mobile node will use the charging service if its energy level is below a certain threshold. The performance evaluation shows the proposed energy charging policy achieves much better performance compared with a naive policy of always charging.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"14 1","pages":"475-480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83145719","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}
D. Babazadeh, M. Nazari, M. H. Fidai, M. Chenine, M. Ghandhari, L. Nordström
{"title":"Implementation of agent-based power flow coordination in AC/DC grids using co-simulation platform","authors":"D. Babazadeh, M. Nazari, M. H. Fidai, M. Chenine, M. Ghandhari, L. Nordström","doi":"10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007644","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents work on the coordination of power sharing contribution of converters in an overlaid HVDC grid using a Multi-Agent System (MAS) approach. This approach is further implemented in a real-time co-simulation platform in order to study the proposed control scheme including the supporting information and communication Technology (ICT) systems. The platform consists of OPNET, a communication network simulator, connected to a real-time power system simulator through virtualized and real devices. Furthermore, the impact of different supporting system parameters such as bit-error rate has been studied using this real-time co-simulation platform.","PeriodicalId":6499,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)","volume":"138 1","pages":"188-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83765063","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}