Evolving Smart Grid Information Management Cloudward: A Cloud Optimization Perspective

Smart grid (SG) is a power system with advanced communication and information technologies integrated and leveraged. In this paper, we study an optimization problem of leveraging the cloud domain to reduce the cost of information management in the SG. We propose a cloud-based SG information management model and present a cloud and network resource optimization framework to solve the cost reduction problem in cloud-based SG information storage and computation.