Conceptual design for distributed real-time computer network architecture

This paper proposes a conceptual design for a "distributed real-time computer network architecture"-an architecture that provides seamless, real-time, adaptive and secure connections between distributed power system devices, consisting of four functional entities: application programs containing power apparatus information objects with correlated global and local models, sophisticated communications function featuring distributed objects communication and mobile agent communications, IP-based transport communications function with QoS control, and network management and security function.