Enhancing 5G Infrastructure for Smart Grid Applications: Challenges and Opportunities

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Main Author: Dr. Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
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contents <p>— The energy sector represents undoubtedly one of the most significant "test cases" for 5G enabling technologies, due to the need of addressing a huge range of very diverse requirements to deal with across a variety of applications (stringent capacity for smart metering/AMI versus latency for supervisory control and fault localization). However, to effectively support energy utilities along their transition towards more decentralized renewable-oriented systems, several open issues still remain as to 5G networks management automation, security, resilience, scalability and portability. To face these issues, we outline a novel 5G PPP-compliant software framework specifically tailored to the energy domain, which combines i) trusted, scalable and lock-in free plug 'n' play support for a variety of constrained devices; ii) 5G devices' abstractions to demonstrate mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications), uMTC (critical MTC) and xMBB (Extended Massive BroadBand) communications coupled with partially distributed, trusted, end-to-end security and MCM to enable secure, scalable and energy efficient communications; iii) extended Mobile Edge Computing (xMEC) micro-clouds to reduce backhaul load, increase the overall network capacity and reduce delays, while facilitating the deployment of generic MTC related NFVs (Network Function Virtualisation) and utility-centric VNFs (Virtual Network Functions).</p>
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spellingShingle Enhancing 5G Infrastructure for Smart Grid Applications: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Smart energy grids
5G
preventive maintenance
resilience
demand response
Machine Type Communications
Virtual Network Functions.
<p>— The energy sector represents undoubtedly one of the most significant "test cases" for 5G enabling technologies, due to the need of addressing a huge range of very diverse requirements to deal with across a variety of applications (stringent capacity for smart metering/AMI versus latency for supervisory control and fault localization). However, to effectively support energy utilities along their transition towards more decentralized renewable-oriented systems, several open issues still remain as to 5G networks management automation, security, resilience, scalability and portability. To face these issues, we outline a novel 5G PPP-compliant software framework specifically tailored to the energy domain, which combines i) trusted, scalable and lock-in free plug 'n' play support for a variety of constrained devices; ii) 5G devices' abstractions to demonstrate mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications), uMTC (critical MTC) and xMBB (Extended Massive BroadBand) communications coupled with partially distributed, trusted, end-to-end security and MCM to enable secure, scalable and energy efficient communications; iii) extended Mobile Edge Computing (xMEC) micro-clouds to reduce backhaul load, increase the overall network capacity and reduce delays, while facilitating the deployment of generic MTC related NFVs (Network Function Virtualisation) and utility-centric VNFs (Virtual Network Functions).</p>
title Enhancing 5G Infrastructure for Smart Grid Applications: Challenges and Opportunities
topic Smart energy grids
5G
preventive maintenance
resilience
demand response
Machine Type Communications
Virtual Network Functions.
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19306465