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A multi-level hierarchical communication network architecture for distributed generators

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Power systems have been dramatically changing with cutting-edge information technologies. The new power system infrastructure has evolved and has been studied by many institutes and companies. Future power systems are bound up quietly with customer-side activities such as real-time pricing and distributed generators (DGs). To deploy those services on the power system, independent and hierarchical communication network architecture is proposed by information hiding and suppressing data exchange in this paper. The function of self-healing and resist attack will be easily implemented by this proposed network. This paper especially focuses on communication bandwidth and topology for power distribution areas as a backbone network for DGs.

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This work was supported by the Power Generation and Electricity Delivery of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (No. 2013101050165G).

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  1. Research Institute of Korea Electric Power Corporation, Daejeon, 305-380, Korea

    Myongsoo Kim, Younghyun Kim & Nogil Myoung

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Kim, M., Kim, Y. & Myoung, N. A multi-level hierarchical communication network architecture for distributed generators. Electr Eng 97, 303–312 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-015-0332-7

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