A multi-level hierarchical communication network architecture for distributed generators

摘要

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.