Using electric vehicles, in addition to decreasing the environmental concerns, can play an important role in decreasing the peak and filling the off-peaks of the daily load characteristics. In other words, in smart grids' infrastructure, the load characteristics can be improved by scheduling the charge and discharge process of electric vehicles. In smart grids, the customers are instantaneously...

The concept of “Smart Systems” is becoming pervasive, from smart homes to autonomous vehicles to smart grids and cities, and beyond. These advances are driven by small, embedded, and high-powered computing systems which interconnect using rapidly-advancing technologies, and which produce ever-increasing amounts of data. Although the “Internet of Things” may produce useful applications and new d...

Simulation is an important tool for study, analysis, design and evaluation of real world systems that we are unable to experiment with directly. Due to complexity of Smart Grids communication systems, it is necessary to use advanced simulation systems with the aim of accelerate the development and implementation of Smart Grids. In this paper, an advanced simulation platform (based on OMNET++) f...

the prevalent communications networks suffer from lack of spectrum and spectrum inefficiency. this has motivated researchers to develop cognitive radio (cr) as a smart and dynamic radio access promised solution. a major challenge to this new technology is how to make fair assignment of available spectrum to unlicensed users, particularly for smart grids communication. this paper introduces an i...

We build a system dynamics model to evaluate the potential dynamics of consumer adoption of “Smart Energy Behaviour”. Within this term we include different levels of: i) shift in electricity consumption towards less costly-less polluting and congestioning hours; ii) the reduction of mainly wasteful electricity consumption, that maintains similar levels of comfort; iii) the enrolment in demand r...

In the past few years, the smart grids have attracted more and more attention. The fact that these systems are based on the pervasive use of new Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) opens new perspectives in an aim to improve the electrical grid performances. One of the most commonly deployed technologies in such a real environment is the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology...

Using electric vehicles, in addition to decreasing the environmental concerns, can play an important role in decreasing the peak and filling the off-peaks of the daily load characteristics. In other words, in smart grids' infrastructure, the load characteristics can be improved by scheduling the charge and discharge process of electric vehicles. In smart grids, the customers are instantaneously...

Editors: Patrick McDaniel, mcdanielcse.psu.edu. Smith, swscs.dartmouth.edu. COPublished by the ieee COmPuter and. Global electrical grids are verging on the largest technological transformation since the introduction of electricity into the home. The antiquated.tiple new challenges in terms of security and privacy. However, whilst the AMI is a critical part of the smart grid infrastructure, it ...

This paper illustrates how the multi-agent approach, or paradigm, can help in the modeling and the simulation of smart grids in the context of MS4SG (a joint project between LORIA-INRIA and EDF R&D). Smart grids simulations need to integrate together pre-existing and heterogeneous models and their simulation software; for example modeling tools of the power grids, of telecommunication networks,...