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Collaborative Load Management with Safety Assurance in Smart Grids

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Hoang Hai Nguyen,

David K. Y. YauAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Volume 1, Issue 2

Article No.: 12, Pages 1 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/2823351

Published: 03 February 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Load shedding can combat the overload of a power grid that may jeopardize the grid’s safety. However, disconnected customers may be excessively inconvenienced or even endangered. With the emergence of demand-response based on cyber-enabled smart meters and appliances, customers may participate in solving the overload by curtailing their demands collaboratively such that no single customers will have to bear a disproportionate burden of reduced usage. However, compliance or commitment to curtailment requests by untrusted users is uncertain, which causes an important safety concern. This article proposes a two-phase load management scheme that (i) gives customers a chance to curtail their demands and correct a grid’s overload when there are no immediate safety concerns but (ii) falls back to load shedding to ensure safety once the grid enters a vulnerable state. Extensive simulations based on a 37-bus electrical grid and traces of real electrical load demonstrate the effectiveness of this scheme. In particular, if customers are, as expected, sufficiently committed to the load curtailment, overloads can be resolved in real time by collaborative and graceful usage degradation among them, thereby avoiding unpleasant load shedding.

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Collaborative Load Management with Safety Assurance in Smart Grids
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Reliability
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Cyber-physical networks

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ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems Volume 1, Issue 2

April 2017

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ISSN:2378-962X

EISSN:2378-9638

DOI:10.1145/3015781

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Tei-Wei Kuo
National Taiwan University, and Academia Sinica, Taiwan

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Published: 03 February 2017

Accepted: 01 December 2016

Revised: 01 June 2016

Received: 01 June 2015

Published in TCPS Volume 1, Issue 2

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https://doi.org/10.3390/app15042092
Park JKang D(2024)Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies in Safety Management: A Comprehensive Analysis Across Multiple IndustriesApplied Sciences10.3390/app14241193414:24(11934)Online publication date: 20-Dec-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/app142411934
Lou XTran CTan RYau DKalbarczyk ZLiu XTabuada PPajic MBushnell L(2019)Assessing and mitigating impact of time delay attackProceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems10.1145/3302509.3311042(207-216)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3302509.3311042

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