Trends and Potentials of the Smart Grid Infrastructure: From ICT Sub-System to SDN-Enabled Smart Grid Architecture

Kim, Jae‐Beom; Filali, Fethi; Ko, Young-Bae

doi:10.3390/app5040706

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“…In the literature, we can find few articles on the use of SDN in SG [72]- [77]. However, these articles are not comprehensive.…”

Section: Comparison With Related Survey Articlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From the standardization perspective, lot of work has been done in SG communication [32]- [34] and SDN alone. For instance, data-driven interoperability and communication-driven interoperability for SG has been proposed by [96] but efforts are required to deal with SDN-based SGC interoperability issues so that utilities can easily adopt SDN technology [77].…”

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Software Defined Networks-Based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey

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The current power grid is no longer a feasible solution due to ever-increasing user demand of electricity, old infrastructure, and reliability issues and thus require transformation to a better grid a.k.a., smart grid (SG). The key features that distinguish SG from the conventional electrical power grid are its capability to perform two-way communication, demand side management, and real time pricing. Despite all these advantages that SG will bring, there are certain issues which are specific to SG communication system. For instance, network management of current SG systems is complex, time consuming, and done manually. Moreover, SG communication (SGC) system is built on different vendor specific devices and protocols. Therefore, the current SG systems are not protocol independent, thus leading to interoperability issue. Software defined network (SDN) has been proposed to monitor and manage the communication networks globally. By separating the control plane from the data plane, SDN helps the network operators to manage the network flexibly. Since SG heavily relies on communication networks, therefore, SDN has also paved its way into the SG. By applying SDN in SG systems, efficiency and resiliency can potentially be improved. SDN, with its programmability, protocol independence, and granularity features, can help the SG to integrate different SG standards and protocols, to cope with diverse communication systems, and to help SG to perform traffic flow orchestration and to meet specific SG quality of service requirements. This article serves as a comprehensive survey on SDN-based SGC. In this article, we first discuss taxonomy of advantages of SDNbased SGC. We then discuss SDN-based SGC architectures, along with case studies. Our article provides an in-depth discussion on routing schemes for SDN-based SGC. We also provide detailed survey of security and privacy schemes applied to SDN-based SGC. We furthermore present challenges, open issues, and future research directions related to SDN-based SGC. Index Terms-Software defined network (SDN), smart grid (SG), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), renewable energy resources (RERs), home area networks (HANs), network management.

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“…In the literature, we can find few articles on the use of SDN in SG [72]- [77]. However, these articles are not comprehensive.…”

Section: Comparison With Related Survey Articlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: ) Interoperability and Standardization In Sdn-based Sgcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Defined Networks-Based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey

Rehmani

Davy

Jennings

et al. 2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

171

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“…Such an architecture ensures command data processing and data acquisition. Meter Data Interface layers [38][39][40] perform: (i) pushing of AMI meter data to DMS; (ii) polling of DMS meter data from the AMI; and (iii) pushing of DMS control commands to AMI [41,42].…”

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“…The utilities can retrieve data collected by the agents and use this information to control the power supply and decide which power sources to use. MAS-based software architecture for micro grids has been experimented in previous studies [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][51][52][53]. Agent-based software architectures are a potential technique in smart grids, hence plenty of research articles exist in this domain.…”

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Software Architectures for Smart Grid System—A Bibliographical Survey

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Smart grid software interconnects multiple Engineering disciplines (power systems, communication, software and hardware technology, instrumentation, big data, etc.). The software architecture is an evolving concept in smart grid systems, in which system architecture development is a challenging process. The architecture has to realize the complex legacy power grid systems and cope with current Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The distributed generation in a smart grid environment expects the software architecture to be distributed and to enable local control. Smart grid architecture should also be modular, flexible, and adaptable to technology upgrades. In this paper, the authors have made a comprehensive review of architectures for smart grids. An in depth analysis of layered and agent-based architectures based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conceptual model is presented. Also presented is a set of smart grid Reference Architectures dealing with cross domain technology.

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“…AMI is the communication infrastructure enabling two-way communications among utilities and users [6,7], while HEMS is used to optimize home energy using different operations and algorithms [8]. AMI and HEMS are employed to manage the increasing demand efficiently.…”

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A Novel Prosumer-Based Energy Sharing and Management (PESM) Approach for Cooperative Demand Side Management (DSM) in Smart Grid

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Increasing population and modern lifestyle have raised energy demands globally. Demand Side Management (DSM) is one important tool used to manage energy demands. It employs an advanced power infrastructure along with bi-directional information flow among utilities and users in order to achieve a balanced load curve and minimize demand-supply mismatch. Traditionally, this involves shifting the electricity demand from peak hours to other times of the day in an optimized manner. Multiple users equipped with renewable resources work in coordination with each other in order to achieve mutually beneficial energy management. This, in turn, has generated the concept of cooperative DSM. Such users, called prosumers, consume and produce energy using renewable resources (solar, wind etc.). Prosumers with surplus energy sell to the grid as well as to other consumers. In this paper, a novel Prosumer-based Energy Sharing and Management (PESM) scheme for cooperative DSM has been proposed. A simulation model has been developed for testing the proposed method. Different variations of the proposed methodology have been experimented with different criteria. The results show that the proposed energy sharing scheme achieves DSM purposes in a useful manner.

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Trends and Potentials of the Smart Grid Infrastructure: From ICT Sub-System to SDN-Enabled Smart Grid Architecture

Cited by 40 publications

References 37 publications

Software Defined Networks-Based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey

Software Defined Networks-Based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey

Software Architectures for Smart Grid System—A Bibliographical Survey

A Novel Prosumer-Based Energy Sharing and Management (PESM) Approach for Cooperative Demand Side Management (DSM) in Smart Grid

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