Constructing Dependable Smart Grid Networks using Network Functions Virtualization

Niedermeier, Michael; Meer, Hermann de

doi:10.1007/s10922-016-9380-1

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“…In addition, the consistency between the service and its priority is validated by Eq. (22). This condition ensures the existence of the service for its corresponding unique priority level.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…The authors also analyze the virtualization of some components of the power grid and the incorporation of ICT infrastructure to deploy improved management mechanisms. Instead, in [22], the authors propose an NFV-enabled virtual advanced metering infrastructure network to transmit energy-related information about power consumption and distributed power production from customers. The evaluation results show that NFV is a reliable and cost-effective alternative for exchanging information about consumption and generation and, in turn, improving the performance of the energy system.…”

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NFV/SDN Enabled Architecture for Efficient Adaptive Management of Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy

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Hesselbach

2020

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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Ever-increasing energy consumption, the depletion of non-renewable resources, the climate impact associated with energy generation, and finite energy-production capacity are important concerns that drive the urgent creation of new solutions for energy management. In this regard, by leveraging the massive connectivity provided by emerging 5G communications, this paper proposes a long-term sustainable Demand-Response (DR) architecture for the efficient management of available energy consumption for Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures. The proposal uses Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies as enablers and promotes the primary use of energy from renewable sources. Associated with architecture, this paper presents a novel consumption model conditioned on availability and in which the consumers are part of the management process. To efficiently use the energy from renewable and non-renewable sources, several management strategies are herein proposed, such as prioritization of the energy supply and workload scheduling using time-shifting capabilities. The complexity of the proposal is analyzed in order to present an appropriate architectural framework. The energy management solution is modeled as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) and, to verify the improvements in energy utilization, an algorithmic solution and its evaluation are presented. Finally, open research problems and application scenarios are discussed.

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Section: ) Capacity Constraintmentioning

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Section: • Flexibility and Adaptability In Energy Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

NFV/SDN Enabled Architecture for Efficient Adaptive Management of Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy

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Hesselbach

2020

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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“…A detailed discussion on network virtuzliation for SG has been presented in [231]. Niedermeier et al [226] uses network function virtualization (NFV) for creating a virtual AMI network. A potential future research area is to consider the scalability and heterogeneity issue while designing virtualization based protocols for SDN-based SGC.…”

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

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IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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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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“…Regarding NFV, this technology has been used in energy management for several specific applications. In power grids, for example, Niedermeier et al [16], proposed an NFV-enabled virtual advanced metering infrastructure network to transmit energy-related information about power consumption and production, with the aim of improving energy management. In mobile communications, the use of NFV to improve energy management and achieve energy efficiency has also been explored.…”

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“…In addition, energy management in our proposal is not solely approached from the supplier side, as described in [16], or solely from the customer side, as discussed in [12], nor is it exclusively focused on a specific infrastructure (e.g., network resource), as shown in [19]. On the contrary, our proposed solution presents the mathematical models of the ES and the ECs, and the formulation of the adaptive consumption model.…”

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NFV-Enabled Efficient Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Management: Requirements and Algorithms

Tipantuña

Hesselbach

2020

Future Internet

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The increasing worldwide energy demand, the CO2 emissions generated due to the production and use of energy, climate change, and the depletion of natural resources are important concerns that require new solutions for energy generation and management. In order to ensure energy sustainability, measures, including the use of renewable energy sources, the deployment of adaptive energy consumption schemes, and consumer participation, are currently envisioned as feasible alternatives. Accordingly, this paper presents the requirements and algorithmic solutions for efficient management of energy consumption, which aims to optimize the use of available energy, whether or not it is 100% renewable, by minimizing the waste of energy. The proposal works within a Demand-Response environment, uses Network Functions Virtualization as an enabling technology, and leverages the massive connectivity of the Internet of Things provided by modern communications technologies. The energy consumption optimization problem is formulated as an Integer Linear Program. It is optimally solved while using a brute-force search strategy, defined as OPTmathsizesmallTSmathsizesmall, to detect all concerns that are related to the problem. Given the NP-hard nature of the problem and the non-polynomial complexity of OPTmathsizesmallTSmathsizesmall, some heuristic solutions are analyzed. Subsequently, a heuristic strategy, described as FASTmathsizesmallTSmathsizesmall based on a pre-partitioning method, is implemented. The simulation results validate our proposed energy management solution. Exact and heuristic strategies, when deployed in the Network Functions Virtualization domain, demonstrate improvements in the way that energy is consumed, thereby offering an increase in service processing. The evaluation results also show that FASTmathsizesmallTSmathsizesmall produces high-quality solutions that are close to those of OPTmathsizesmallTSmathsizesmall while executing 230×–5000× faster.

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Constructing Dependable Smart Grid Networks using Network Functions Virtualization

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

NFV/SDN Enabled Architecture for Efficient Adaptive Management of Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy

NFV/SDN Enabled Architecture for Efficient Adaptive Management of Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy

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

NFV-Enabled Efficient Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Management: Requirements and Algorithms

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