Interfacing power system and ICT simulators: Challenges, state-of-the-art, and case studies

Sven Christian Müller; Hanno Georg; James J. Nutaro; Edmund Widl; Yi Deng; Peter Palensky; Muhammad U. Awais; Moustafa Chenine; Markus Küch; Matthias Stifter; Hua Lin; Sandeep K. Shukla; Christian Wietfeld; Christian Rehtanz; Christian Dufour; Xiaoyu Wang; Venkata Dinavahi; Md Omar Faruque; Wenchao Meng; Shichao Liu; Antonello Monti; Ming Ni; Ali Davoudi; Ali Mehrizi-Sani

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Interfacing power system and ICT simulators: Challenges, state-of-the-art, and case studies

Sven Christian Müller, Hanno Georg, James J. Nutaro, Edmund Widl, Yi Deng, Peter Palensky, Muhammad U. Awais, Moustafa Chenine, Markus Küch, Matthias Stifter, Hua Lin, Sandeep K. Shukla, Christian Wietfeld, Christian Rehtanz, Christian Dufour, Xiaoyu Wang, Venkata Dinavahi, Md Omar Faruque, Wenchao Meng, Shichao LiuAntonello Monti, Ming Ni, Ali Davoudi, Ali Mehrizi-Sani

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With the transition toward a smart grid, the power system has become strongly intertwined with the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure. The interdependency of both domains requires a combined analysis of physical and ICT processes, but simulating these together is a major challenge due to the fundamentally different modeling and simulation concepts. After outlining these challenges, such as time synchronization and event handling, this paper presents an overview of state-of-the-art solutions to interface power system and ICT simulators. Due to their prominence in recent research, a special focus is set on co-simulation approaches and their challenges and potentials. Further, two case studies analyzing the impact of ICT on applications in power system operation illustrate the necessity of a holistic approach and show the capabilities of state-of-the-art co-simulation platforms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-24
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2016.2542824
State	Published - Jan 2018

Keywords

Co-simulation
Communication systems
Information technology
Power system simulation
Smart grids

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Müller, S. C., Georg, H., Nutaro, J. J., Widl, E., Deng, Y., Palensky, P., Awais, M. U., Chenine, M., Küch, M., Stifter, M., Lin, H., Shukla, S. K., Wietfeld, C., Rehtanz, C., Dufour, C., Wang, X., Dinavahi, V., Omar Faruque, M., Meng, W., ... Mehrizi-Sani, A. (2018). Interfacing power system and ICT simulators: Challenges, state-of-the-art, and case studies. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 9(1), 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2016.2542824

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