2021/03/22 by Fredrik Ege Abrahamsen, Abrahamsen, Fredrik Ege, Yun Ai +3
Computer Science · Engineering · #Caching and Content Delivery #FOS: Electrical engineering #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #Smart Grid Security and Resilience #Software-Defined Networks and 5G #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.11657
openalex publication_date 2021/03/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
With the ongoing trends in the energy sector such as vehicular electrification and renewable energy, smart grid is clearly playing a more and more important role in the electric power system industry. One essential feature of the smart grid is the information flow over the high-speed, reliable and secure data communication network in order to manage the complex power systems effectively and intelligently. Smart grids utilize bidirectional communication to function where traditional power grids mainly only use one-way communication. The communication requirements and suitable technique differ depending on the specific environment and scenario. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date survey on the communication technologies used in the smart grid, including the communication requirements, physical layer technologies, network architectures, and research challenges. This survey aims to help the readers identify the potential research problems in the continued research on the topic of smart grid communications.