Smart Grid Communications

电力公司面临着一系列不断变化的挑战，以维持和改善服务。全球需求不断增长，一次能源资源枯竭，碳排放等环境问题，多样化发电，电动汽车充电和可靠性是要求电网发生深刻变化的一些问题。智能电网（SG）有希望解决这些挑战，并显着提高性能和效率。它使用双向通信为公用事业提供远程访问和控制电网组件，并允许实时传感和测量。普及通信将使公用事业公司能够将消费者和分布式能源资源纳入决策过程，以有效地平衡供需。 无线技术将在这些进步中发挥关键作用，因为它们必须支持整个电网的数据传输和信息交换。尽管SG无线网络具有巨大的潜力，但其成功部署仍面临重大挑战。 这项研究计划的目标是解决现有的和未来的无线通信网络在SG上下文中的挑战。重点将放在覆盖和连接、容量规划和资源分配、安全和隐私、异构性和互操作性、共存和干扰缓解以及可用性和可靠性上。将研究SG通信网络的以下关键使能技术：1）网络和信道编码策略; 2）动态频谱管理; 3）创新的协作中继技术; 4）无线电资源管理; 5）网格用户隐私和数据安全;以及6）干扰缓解技术。拟议的研究将开发，评估和演示SG无线网络的新解决方案，以提高发电，配电和消费。由此产生的技术创新将增强和推进SG无线通信网络的部署，并将对不断发展的SG产生重大影响。该研究项目将为加拿大带来巨大的经济效益，并为加拿大高科技产业培养专业人才。

Electric utilities are faced with an evolving set of challenges to maintain and improve services. Rising global demands, depletion of primary energy resources, environmental concerns such as carbon emissions, diversified generation, charging of electric vehicles, and reliability are some of the issues that call for profound changes in the electrical grid. Smart grid (SG) has the promise to address these challenges and dramatically improve performance and efficiency. It uses two-way communications to provide utilities with remote access and control of the grid components, and allow real-time sensing and measurement. Pervasive communications will allow utilities to incorporate consumers and distributed energy resources into the decision process to efficiently balance supply and demand. Wireless technologies will play a key role in these advances as they must support data transfer and information exchange throughout the power grid. Despite the tremendous potential with SG wireless networks, there are major challenges to their successful deployment. The goal of this research program is to address existing and future challenges of wireless communications networks in a SG context. The focus will be on coverage and connectivity, capacity planning and resource allocation, security and privacy, heterogeneity and interoperability, coexistence and interference mitigation as well as availability and reliability. The following key enabling technologies for SG communications networks will be examined: 1) network and channel coding strategies; 2) dynamic spectrum management; 3) innovative cooperative relay techniques; 4) radio resource management; 5) privacy for grid users and data security; and 6) interference mitigation techniques. The proposed research will develop, evaluate, and demonstrate novel solutions for SG wireless networks to enhance electric power generation, distribution, and consumption. The resulting technical innovations will enhance and advance the deployment of SG wireless communications networks, and will have a significant impact on the evolving SG. The proposed research program will provide significant economic benefits to Canada, and train professionals for the Canadian high technology industry.