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

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 14-24

  Müller, Sven Christian ^a   Georg, Hanno ^a   Nutaro, James J ^b   Widl, Edmund ^c   Deng, Yi ^d   Palensky, Peter ^e   Awais, Muhammad U ^c   Chenine, Moustafa ^f   Küch, Markus ^a   Stifter, Matthias ^c   Lin, Hua ^d   Shukla, Sandeep K ^d   Wietfeld, Christian ^a   Rehtanz, Christian ^a   Dufour, Christian ^g   Wang, Xiaoyu ^h   Dinavahi, Venkata ⁱ   Omar Faruque, Md ^j   Meng, Wenchao ^h   Liu, Shichao ^h   Monti, Antonello ^k   Ni, Ming ^l   Davoudi, Ali ^m   Mehrizi Sani, Ali ⁿ   more..

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d State University   (United States)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^g OPAL RT TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

^h CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^j FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^l STATE GRID ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

ⁿ Washington State University   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERFACE STATES;

CO-SIMULATIONS; COMBINED ANALYSIS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MODEL AND SIMULATION; POWER SYSTEM OPERATIONS; POWER SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; SMART GRID; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 85048934623     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2016.2542824     Document Type: Article

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