“…As mentioned above, to enhance the reliability of smart stations, it is necessary to provide an adequate adaptive protection and fault management method for the supply grid of these stations. However, the existing protection methods, such as methods presented in [29,31,37], are not only able to provide an ad adaptive protection (that is needed for the grids that are fed by renewable energy resources), but also cannot restore the grid after a fault occurrence, effectively. To overcome these issues, this paper presents a communication-based protection and fault management method that is able to adapt relays' setting after a change in the network topology, RES' output power or disconnection/re-connection of the utility grid.…”