Evaluation of Communication Latency for Future Time-Critical Smart Grid Measurement and Control Systems

This paper focuses on the firm real-time requirements of Time-Critical Wide Area Measurement and Control systems for future Smart Grids. It outlines the findings from the first stage in an ongoing body of work aimed at developing models and techniques that will enable the performance evaluation of these systems to take place prior to their implementation. It then discusses the first phase in the second stage of this project that addresses the problem of evaluation in cases where the output from system's devices is variable. It then presents some preliminary findings and outlines the direction for future work.