Overcoming communications challenges in software for monitoring and controlling power systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1028-1041

  Birman, Kenneth P ^a   Chen, Jie ^b   Hopkinson, Enneth M ^c   Thomas, Robert J ^b   Thorp, James S ^d   Van Renesse, Robbert ^a   Vogels, Werner ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrolabe; Electric power grid monitoring and control; Supervisory control and data acquisition (scada); TCP IP; Utility communications architecture (uca)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SCADA SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WEBSITES;

ASTROLABE; ELECTRIC POWER GRID MONITORING AND CONTROL; ROBUST PROTOCOL; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOLS (TCP)/INTERNET PROTOCOLS (IP);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 21244452845     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2005.846339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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