Recent Advances in Smart Grid VOLUME 13 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2015 ZTE Communications Editorial Board
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www.zte.com.cn/magazine/English ISSN 1673-5188 CODEN ZCTOAK ZTE COMMUNICATIONS ZTE COMMUNICATIONS An International ICT R&D Journal Sponsored by ZTE Corporation September 2015, Vol. 13 No. 3 SPECIAL TOPIC: Recent Advances in Smart Grid VOLUME 13 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2015 ZTE Communications Editorial Board Chairman Houlin Zhao: International Telecommunication Union (Switzerland) Vice Chairmen Lirong Shi: ZTE Corporation (China) Chengzhong Xu: Wayne State University (USA) Members (in Alphabetical Order): Chang Wen Chen The State University of New York at Buffalo (USA) Chengzhong Xu Wayne State University (USA) Connie Chang-Hasnain University of California, Berkeley (USA) Fa-Long Luo Element CXI (USA) Fuji Ren The University of Tokushima (Japan) Guifang Li University of Central Florida (USA) Honggang Zhang Université Européenne de Bretagne (France) Houlin Zhao International Telecommunication Union (Switzerland) Huifang Sun Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (USA) Jianhua Ma Hosei University (Japan) Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong, China) Jinhong Yuan University of New South Wales (Australia) Keli Wu The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) Kun Yang University of Essex (UK) Lirong Shi ZTE Corporation (China) Shigang Chen University of Florida (USA) Shuguang Cui Texas A&M University (USA) Victor C. M. Leung The University of British Columbia (Canada) Wanlei Zhou Deakin University (Australia) Weihua Zhuang University of Waterloo (Canada) Wen Gao Peking University (China) Wenjun (Kevin) Zeng University of Missouri (USA) Xiaodong Wang Columbia University (USA) Yi Pan Georgia State University (USA) Yingfei Dong University of Hawaii (USA) Yueping Zhang Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Zhenge (George) Sun ZTE Corporation (China) Zhili Sun University of Surrey (UK) CONTENTS www.zte.com.cn/magazine/English ISSN 1673-5188 Special Topic: Recent Advances in Smart Grid CODEN ZCTOAK ZTE COMMUNICATIONS Guest Editorial 01 Kun Yang and Yingfei Dong An International ICT R&D Journal Sponsored by ZTE Corporation September 2015, Vol. 13 No. 3 SPECIAL TOPIC: Recent Advances in Smart Grid Theory Study and Application of the BP⁃ANN Method 02 for Power Grid Short⁃Term Load Forecasting Xia Hua, Gang Zhang, Jiawei Yang, and Zhengyuan Li A Solution⁃Based Analysis of Attack Vectors on Smart Home Systems 06 Andreas Brauchli and Depeng Li Submission of a manuscript implies that the submitted work has not been published Secure Communication Networks in the Advanced Metering 13 before (except as part of a thesis or lecture Infrastructure of Smart Grid note or report or in the form of an abstract); that it is not under consideration Feng Ye and Yi Qian for publication elsewhere; that its publication has been approved by all co- authors as well as by the authorities at the institute where the work has been carried Reliable Remote Relay Protection in Smart Grid out; that, if and when the manuscript is 21 accepted for publication, the authors hand Jiapeng Zhang and Yingfei Dong over the transferable copyrights of the accepted manuscript to ZTE Communications; and that the manuscript or parts thereof will not be published Experimental Study on Cloud⁃Computing⁃Based 33 elsewhere in any language without the Electric Power SCADA System consent of the copyright holder. 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CONTENTS Research Papers ZTE COMMUNICATIONS Vol. 13 No. 3 (Issue 47) Quarterly Crawler for Nodes in the Internet of Things First English Issue Published in 2003 46 Xuemeng Li, Yongyi Wang, Fan Shi, and Wenchao Jia Supervised by: Anhui Science and Technology Department Sponsored by: Anhui Science and Technology Information Research Institute and ZTE Corporation An Improved Wireless Sensor Network Routing Algorithm 51 Staff Members: Shengmei Luo, Xue Li, Yiai Jin, and Zhixin Sun Editor-in-Chief: Sun Zhenge Executive Associate Editor-in-Chief: Huang Xinming Editor-in-Charge: Zhu Li Editors: Paul Sleswick, Xu Ye, Yang Qinyi, Lu Dan Fast, Exact and Robust Set Operations on Polyhedrons Using 57 Producer: Yu Gang Localized Constructive Solid Geometry Trees Circulation Executive: Wang Pingping Assistant: Wang Kun Ping Lu, Xudong Jiang, Wei Lu, Ran Wei, and Bin Sheng Editorial Correspondence: Add: 12F Kaixuan Building, 329 Jinzhai Road, Hefei 230061, P. R. China Tel: +86-551-65533356 Fax: +86-551-65850139 Email: [email protected] Roundup Published and Circulated (Home and Abroad) by: ZTE Communications Call for Papers Editorial Office of 41 ZTE Communications —Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Communications Printed by: Hefei Tiancai Color Printing Company Publication Date: September 25, 2015 ZTE Communications Call for Papers Publication Licenses: 50 —Special Issue on Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications ISSN 1673-5188 CN 34-1294/ TN Advertising License: 皖合工商广字0058号 Annual Subscription: RMB 80 Special Topic Guest Editorial Kun Yang and Yingfei Dong Recent Advances in Smart Grid ▶ Kun Yang smart grid is the next⁃generation electric grid that enables efficient, in⁃ Professor Kun Yang received his telligent, and economical power generation as well as reliable, safe, ro⁃ PhD degree from University College bust transmission and distribution. It uses modern information and com⁃ London (UCL). He received his MSc munications technologies, such as advanced sensing, monitoring and pro⁃ and BSc degrees from Jilin Universi⁃ A ty, China. He is currently a chair cessing technology, and high⁃speed bi⁃directional communications and networking. professor in the School of Computer In recent years, the smart grid has attracted significant attentions from academics, Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, and leads the industry, equipment manufacturers, and service providers. Developing the smart Network Convergence Laboratory grid has become a global trend due to the immense potential benefits including en⁃ there. Before joining the University of Essex in 2003, he worked for several years at University hanced reliability and resilience, higher operational efficiency, more efficient ener⁃ College London on EU research projects. His main re⁃ gy consumption, and better power quality. search interests include heterogeneous wireless networks, fixed ⁃ mobile convergence, future Internet technology and We received strong responses to this call for papers on Recent Advances in network virtualization, and cloud computing and network⁃ Smart Grid from universities, research institutes, and industry. Following a peer⁃re⁃ ing. He manages research projects funded by sources such as UK EPSRC, EU FP7/H2020, and industries. He has view process, we have selected five papers for inclusion in this special issue. published more than 60 journal papers. He serves on the The first paper,“Theory Study and Application of the BP⁃ANN Method for Power editorial boards of both IEEE and non ⁃IEEE journals. He Grid Short⁃Term Load Forecasting,”aims at improving the accuracy of short⁃term is a senior member of the IEEE and a fellow of IET. load forecasting in a power system. To this end, the authors propose a new predic⁃ tive model using the BP⁃ANN⁃based method from a neural network. A theoretical ▶ Yingfei Dong background and numerical results are also given in this paper. Professor Yingfei Dong received his The second paper,“A Solution⁃Based Analysis of Attack Vectors on Smart Home B.S. degree and M.S. degree in com⁃ puter science at Harbin Institute of Systems,”first presents a short survey of privacy and security in the broader smart⁃ Technology, China, in 1989 and world context and then analyzes and ranks attack vectors or entry points into a 1992, his PhD degree in engineering at Tsinghua University in 1996, and smart home system and propose solutions to remedy or diminish the risk of compro⁃ his PhD degree in computer and in⁃ mised security or privacy. formation science at the University of Minnesota in 2003. He is an Asso⁃ In the third paper,“Secure Communication Networks in the Advanced Metering ciated Professor at the Department Infrastructure of Smart Grid,”the authors propose a security protocol for the ad⁃ of Electrical Engineering of the University of Hawaii at vanced metering infrastructure (AMI) with two⁃way communication in a smart grid. Manoa. His research mostly focuses on computer and net⁃ work security and privacy, especially in security and priva⁃ The work proposes a security protocol specifically for the AMI to meet the security cy issues in network design and protocols, cloud comput⁃ requirements. ing, smart grid, unmanned aerial vehicles, real ⁃ time net⁃ works, distributed systems and applications. He has pub⁃ The methods for efficient network resource management are proposed in the lished about 90 refereed research papers in various interna⁃ fourth paper,“Reliable Remote Relay Protection in Smart Grid.”The authors dis⁃ tional journals and conferences. He has also served as asso⁃ ciated editors for three international journals, and as orga⁃ cuss simple backup solutions