Title: Communication infrastructure planning for wide area measurement systems in power systems

Authors: Mohammad Shahraeini; Mohammad Hossein Javidi; Mohammad Sadegh Ghazizadeh

Addresses: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Golestan University, Al-ghadir Blv., Gorgan, Iran ' Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, P.O. Box 91779-48974, Mashhad, Iran ' Department of Electrical Engineering, Power and Water University of Technology, East Vafadar Blvd., Tehranpars, P.O. Box 16765-1719, Tehran, Iran

Abstract: Smart grid denotes integration of all elements connected to a power grid with a communication infrastructure. In modern power systems, wide area measurement systems (WAMS) are such systems that use communication infrastructure to share their data and information. Recently, WAMS have been a new opportunity that contributes power system operators to receive and process the whole information of the system. State estimation is recognised as the basis of WAMS applications since it provides creditable data for other WAMS applications. In this study, we propose a new approach to design communication infrastructures of power systems. The designed communication infrastructure creates routing paths from installed phasor measurement units to the control centre in order to estimate system states. Simulation results confirm that, in a WAMS implementation, the price of secure, reliable and high-speed communication infrastructure of such a WAMS should be taken into account.

Keywords: wide area measurement systems; WAMS; state estimation; system observability; phasor measurement unit; PMU; optical power grand wire; OPGW; genetic algorithms; GAs; communications infrastructure; smart grid; infrastructure planning; power systems communication; infrastructure design; simulation; security; reliability; high-speed communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2013.054229

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2013 Vol.10 No.4, pp.319 - 334

Published online: 30 Jul 2013 *

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