Designing a decentralized fault-tolerant software framework for smart grids and its applications

Journal Article · Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of Systems Architecture

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2020.101759· OSTI ID:1768822

Ghosh, Purboday ^[1]; Eisele, Scott ^[2]; Dubey, Abhishek ^[2]; Metelko, Mary ^[2]; Madari, Istvan ^[2]; Volgyesi, Peter ^[2]; Karsai, Gabor ^[2]

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1. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States); Vanderbilt University
2. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)

The vision of the ‘Smart Grid’ anticipates a distributed real-time embedded system that implements various monitoring and control functions. As the reliability of the power grid is critical to modern society, the software supporting the grid must support fault tolerance and resilience of the resulting cyber-physical system. This paper describes the fault-tolerance features of a software framework called Resilient Information Architecture Platform for Smart Grid (RIAPS). The framework supports various mechanisms for fault detection and mitigation and works in concert with the applications that implement the grid-specific functions. The paper discusses the design philosophy for and the implementation of the fault tolerance features and presents an application example to show how it can be used to build highly resilient systems.

• Research Organization: Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
• Grant/Contract Number: AR0000666
• OSTI ID: 1768822
• Journal Information: Journal of Systems Architecture, Journal Name: Journal of Systems Architecture Vol. 109; ISSN 1383-7621
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
42 ENGINEERING
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Distributed systems
Fault tolerance
Smart grid