Communication network assessment for distributed smart grid applications

Future smart grid services are likely to be deployed in a distributed fashion in order to achieve a reasonable system management complexity. An adequate communication infrastructure is then crucial to enable scalable and seamless operations in the electrical grid. The paper main contribution consists of a quantitative evaluation of the quality of service in different wired and wireless communication systems, applied to two use case scenarios: the “collaborative load shedding for frequency support” and the “distributed optimal power flow management in a dc grid”.