@inproceedings{1d333e8ae24d4893ba1a0e1595a9d6cb,
title = "Analysis of Hybrid Smart Grid Communication Network Designs for Distributed Energy Resources Coordination",
abstract = "The rapid growth of distributed energy resources (DERs) has prompted increasing interest in the monitoring and control of DERs through hybrid smart grid communications. This paper develops a new method to investigate the impact of DER penetrations and applications on hybrid communications network designs. A suite of hybrid communications simulation models are developed using Network Simulator 3 (ns-3). The smart grid communications topologies with different DER penetrations are built on the utility-scale distribution grid. The simulation results show that (i) with increasing photovoltaic penetrations, nine hybrid communications designs achieve the expected latency albeit with higher packet loss rate; and (ii) both BPLC-Ethernet and BPLC-WiMAX designs can accommodate the DER applications with a high data rate up to 100 Mbps.",
keywords = "DER communication, distributed energy resources (DER), high penetration of distributed PV, hybrid communication architecture, smart grid communication",
author = "Jianhua Zhang and Adarsh Hasandka and Alam, \{S. M.Shafiul\} and Tarek Elgindy and Florita, \{Anthony R.\} and Hodge, \{Bri Mathias\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2019 ; Conference date: 18-02-2019 Through 21-02-2019",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1109/ISGT.2019.8791581",
language = "English",
series = "2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2019",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2019",
}