NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Scalability and Reliability for Network Communication Infrastructure in Smart Grid

NeTS：小型：协作研究：智能电网中网络通信基础设施的可扩展性和可靠性

• 批准号: 1423408
• 负责人: Yi Qian
• 金额: $ 22.55万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1423408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Small; Collaborative; Research; Scalability

As the first major milestone and the fundamental step of the overall smart grid roadmap, an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is a system that senses, collects and analyzes data on energy usage and power quality from smart meters, and communicates with metering devices on request or on schedule. In spite of many recent research activities on smart grid communication infrastructure, scalability and reliability of communication architectures in smart grid AMI are still not well-addressed yet, even though they are two of the most important issues in this field. These have seriously hampered the development and deployment of effective communication technologies to smart grid field. Moreover, there is still a critical gap in the knowledge base to understand the interactions and the tradeoffs of scalability and reliability, and to design the best performance metrics in smart grid AMI.This project investigates the challenging issues of emerging communication network design in smart grid, and study scalability and reliability aspects and their interactions in AMI. The proposed research aims at analysis and design of scalable architectures for advanced metering infrastructures in the wide area network level, and designs reliable communications for energy efficient self-sustaining neighborhood area networks. The approaches include identifying and addressing the new challenges in the scalability and reliability design for smart grid communications with a large amount of data and different communication requirements, designing novel algorithms for optimal deployment of neighborhood area networks, and summarizing design strategies and principles for scalable and reliable end-to-end smart grid communications under various scenarios. This project introduces novel network design strategies and principles to achieve scalable and reliable network communication infrastructure that can handle a tremendous amount of AMI smart metering data in real-time. The research efforts conducted in this project will advance scientific understanding in the field of network communication infrastructure in smart grid, and have a significant impact on the design of scalable and reliable smart grid AMI systems. The outcomes of the project will foster the transition of our society into a more energy efficient and sustainable future. The project incorporates an education plan that engages underrepresented students.

作为整个智能电网路线图的第一个重要里程碑和基本步骤，高级计量基础设施 (AMI) 是一个系统，可感知、收集和分析智能电表的能源使用和电能质量数据，并根据请求与计量设备进行通信或按计划进行。尽管最近在智能电网通信基础设施方面开展了许多研究活动，但智能电网 AMI 中通信架构的可扩展性和可靠性仍然没有得到很好的解决，尽管它们是该领域最重要的两个问题。这些都严重阻碍了有效通信技术在智能电网领域的开发和部署。此外，在了解可扩展性和可靠性的交互和权衡以及设计智能电网 AMI 中的最佳性能指标方面，知识库中仍然存在着严重的差距。该项目研究了智能电网中新兴通信网络设计的挑战性问题，并研究 AMI 中的可扩展性和可靠性方面及其相互作用。拟议的研究旨在分析和设计广域网级别的先进计量基础设施的可扩展架构，并为节能的自我维持邻域网络设计可靠的通信。这些方法包括识别和解决具有大量数据和不同通信需求的智能电网通信的可扩展性和可靠性设计中的新挑战，设计用于邻域网络优化部署的新颖算法，并总结可扩展和可扩展的设计策略和原则。各种场景下可靠的端到端智能电网通信。该项目引入了新颖的网络设计策略和原理，以实现可扩展且可靠的网络通信基础设施，可以实时处理大量 AMI 智能计量数据。该项目进行的研究工作将增进对智能电网网络通信基础设施领域的科学理解，并对可扩展且可靠的智能电网 AMI 系统的设计产生重大影响。该项目的成果将促进我们的社会向更加节能和可持续的未来过渡。该项目包含一项吸引代表性不足的学生的教育计划。