Network level Quality of Service (QoS) challenges for smart grid measurement and control systems

Abstract

This paper focuses on the firm real-time requirements of Time-Critical Wide Area Measurement and Control systems, that are expected to play a major role in future Smart Grids. It analyses the operation of these systems and identifies their communication traffic characteristics. It shows that these characteristics are significantly different to those of the current near real-time Wide Area Measurement applications that provide visualization to support manual grid control. It then discusses the performance evaluation of these time critical systems and presents the second stage in an ongoing body of work aimed at developing models and techniques to carry out the performance evaluation process. It presents some preliminary results and outlines the direction for future work.

Foundational Support Systems of the Smart Grid: State of the Art and Future Trends

“…Quality of Service (QoS) Mechanisms and Traffic Characteristics. [29] QoS algorithms for multiple interconnected applications Latency Impacts and Modeling…”