An Energy-Communication Network Restoration Strategy under Joint Dispatch of Drone Small Cell and Maintenance Personnel

Currently, the restoration of energy and communication networks in post-disaster power distribution systems is often considered independently, lacking effective coordination. To address this issue, this paper proposes a post-disaster recovery strategy for the energy-communication network of power distribution systems that involves coordinated scheduling of drone small cell (DSC) and maintenance personnel (MP). Firstly, scheduling models of DSC and MP are established to quantitatively analyze their temporal and spatial characteristics. Then, a post-disaster recovery strategy is proposed for the energy-communication network under the coordinated scheduling of DSC and MP. The energy-communication network is restored with the objective of minimizing the operating costs of the post-disaster power distribution system. The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is verified through numerical simulations based on an improved IEEE 33-node distribution network.