Self-healing in smart distribution networks using data exchange model and reliable multicast protocol

Abstract

Manual interventions are most common way of handling today's power networks. Replacing manual interventions with a sophisticated algorithm which would be able to recognize the problem and solve it in an optimized time, is in the very near future, and will allow the network to be more flexible, and prevent network operators from making a mistake. The approach described in this paper shows that, by enabling data exchange between different substations, and by exploiting substations unused resources, it is possible to obtain a self-healing distribution network in which risks of manual interventions are reduced to minimum. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.