TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2014/06/26/
N2  - Largely motivated by the proliferation of content-centric applications in the Internet, information-centric networking has attracted the attention of the research community. By tailoring network operations around named information objects instead of end hosts, ICN yields a series of desirable features such as the spatiotemporal decoupling of communicating entities and the support of in-network caching. In this article, we advocate the introduction of such ICN features in a new, rapidly transforming communication domain: the smart grid. With the rapid introduction of multiple new actors, such as distributed (renewable) energy resources and electric vehicles, smart grids present a new networking landscape where a diverse set of multi-party machine-to-machine applications are required to enhance the observability of the power grid, often in real time and on top of a diverse set of communication infrastructures. Presenting a generic architectural framework, we show how ICN can address the emerging smart grid communication challenges. Based on real power grid topologies from a power distribution network in the Netherlands, we further employ simulations to both demonstrate the feasibility of an ICN solution for the support of real-time smart grid applications and further quantify the performance benefits brought by ICN against the current host-centric paradigm. Specifically, we show how ICN can support real-time state estimation in the medium voltage power grid, where high volumes of synchrophasor measurement data from distributed vantage points must be delivered within a very stringent end-to-end delay constraint, while swiftly overcoming potential power grid component failures.
ID  - discovery1448997
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2014.6843233
VL  - 28
SP  - 58
JF  - IEEE Network
A1  - Katsaros, KV
A1  - Chai, WK
A1  - Wang, N
A1  - Pavlou, G
A1  - Bontius, H
A1  - Paolone, M
PB  - IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
TI  - Information-Centric Networking for Machine-to-Machine Data Delivery: A Case Study in Smart Grid Applications
SN  - 0890-8044
AV  - public
IS  - 3
EP  - 64
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
KW  - Phasor measurement units
KW  -   Smart grids
KW  -   Network architecture
KW  -   Network topology
KW  -   Delays
KW  -   Real-time systems
KW  -   Information retrieval
KW  -   Information technology
KW  -   Content-based retrieval
KW  -   Power distribution
ER  -