Communication Networks for Smart Grids: Making Smart Grid Real

✍ Scribed by Kenneth C. Budka, Jayant G. Deshpande, Marina Thottan (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an application-centric approach to the development of smart grid communication architecture. The coverage includes in-depth reviews of such cutting-edge applications as advanced metering infrastructure, distribution automation, demand response and synchrophasors. Features: examines a range of exciting utility applications made possible through smart grid evolution; describes the core-edge network architecture for smart grids, introducing the concept of WANs and FANs; explains how the network design paradigm for smart grids differs from that for more established data networks, and discusses network security in smart grids; provides an overview of communication network technologies for WANs and FANs, covering OPGW, PLC, and LTE and MPLS technology; investigates secure data-centric data management and data analytics for smart grids; discusses the transformation of a network from conventional modes of utility operation to an integrated network based on the smart grid architecture framework.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction to Smart Grids....Pages 1-21
Elements of Power Systems for Networking Practitioners....Pages 23-45
Elements of Communication Networking for Power System Practitioners....Pages 47-90
Conventional Applications in Utility Operations....Pages 91-109
Smart Grid Applications....Pages 111-147
A Communication Network Architecture for the Smart Grid....Pages 149-167
An Overview of Smart Grid Network Design Process....Pages 169-207
Network Security....Pages 209-225
WAN and FAN Technologies for the Smart Grid....Pages 227-263
Smart Grid Data Management....Pages 265-284
Communication Network Transformation....Pages 285-324
Future of Smart Grid Communication Networks....Pages 325-330
Icons Used in Figures....Pages 331-331
Smart Grid Characterization....Pages 333-334
Fourier Analysis....Pages 335-337
Voice over IP and Quality of Service....Pages 339-340
Back Matter....Pages 341-369

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Data Encryption; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks