Cyber Security of smart grids becomes more and more important to our everyday life for its wide implication in power systems, a critical infrastructure in a modern society. Many universities and corporations have put efforts in this field. However, there has been lack of emphasis on educational front of this important area. We believe that simulation systems designed for research purposes in th...

Smart grid is maximum optimization of energy management achieved through transmission and distribution automation, efficient use of existing network and integration of smart devices. Due to electric power system’s own characteristics, it cannot store energy in a large scale therefore electric generation, transmission, distribution and usage operations must be completed simultaneously. Due to it...

For a hundred years, there has been no change in the basic structure of the electrical power grid. Experiences have shown that the hierarchical, centrally-controlled grid of the twentieth century is ill-suited to the needs of the twenty-first. To address the challenges of the existing power grid, the new concept of smart grid has emerged. The smart grid can be considered as a modern electric po...

—This paper proposes a multiple hops WiMAX topology to serve as a wireless communication for the smart grid. A simulation model is developed to evaluate the network performance based on the quality of service requirements of the smart grid applications in order to explore the possible solutions for the grid. The simulation results demonstrated that different service flow types affect the laten...

A communications infrastructure is necessary in order to integrate numerous devices on the smart grid. Among the key technology areas, the implementation of integrated communications infrastructure needs to be performed with the highest priority to build the smart grid efficiently. To encounter possible disruptions of the grid system, a highly reliable, scalable, secure, robust and cost-effecti...

With urging problem of energy and pollution, smart grid is becoming ever important. By gradually changing the actual power grid system, smart grid may evolve into different systems by means of size, elements and strategies, but its fundamental requirements and objectives will not change such as optimizing production, transmission and consumption. Studying the smart grid through modeling and sim...

Smart Grids are becoming a reality all over the world. Nowadays, the research efforts for the introduction and deployment of these grids are mainly focused on the development of the field of Smart Metering. This emerging application requires the use of technologies to access the significant number of points of supply (PoS) existing in the grid, covering the Low Voltage (LV) segment with the low...

The smart grid is a promising technology of the next-generation electrical systems which involves wireless networks. Such Long Term Evolution (LTE), which has been proposed and developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), is expected to be a preferable technology due to its high data rate and low delay. Due to the fact that smart grid requires real-time communications, scheduling...

Smart Grid, as an energy-based Cyber-Physical Sys­ tem (CPS), is a new type of power grid that will provide reliable, secure, and efficient energy transmission and distribution. As the quality of assurance of monitoring data is essential to smart grid, in this talk we will first present two dangerous false data injection attacks, which target the state estimation and energy distribution in smar...