Cyber-secure Data And Control Cloud for Power Grids (C-DAX)

C-DAX
Official project website: http://www.cdax.eu

Research project funded by

Project Team

Head

Prof. Dr. Michael Menth
Michael Hoefling

Researchers

Florian Heimgaertner

Students

Daniel Fuchs
Cynthia Mills
Benjamin Litfinski
Fabian Wannenmacher

Project-specific Publications

Journal Papers

  1. Michael Hoefling, Cynthia G. Mills, and Michael Menth: Distributed Load Balancing for the Resilient Publish/Subscribe Overlay in SeDAX, in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 14, no. 1, March 2017, IEEE (abstract)
  2. Wei Koong Chai, Ning Wang, Konstantinos V. Katsaros, George Kamel, Stijn Melis, Michael Hoefling, Barbara Vieira, Paolo Romano, Styliani Sarri, Teklemariam Tesfay, Binxu Yang, Florian Heimgaertner, Marco Pignati, Mario Paolone, Michael Menth, George Pavlou, Erik Poll, Marcel Mampaey, Herman Bontius and Chris Develder: An Information-Centric Communication Infrastructure for Real-Time State Estimation of Active Distribution Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), (to appear), IEEE

Conference and Workshop Papers

  1. Michael Hoefling, Florian Heimgaertner, and Michael Menth: Advanced Communication Modes for the Publish/Subscribe C-DAX Middleware, in Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE Workshop on the Management of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things (ManFIoT 2016) collocated with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016), April 2016, Istanbul, Turkey
  2. Michael Hoefling, Florian Heimgaertner, Daniel Fuchs, and Michael Menth: jOSEF: A Java-Based Open-Source Smart Meter Gateway Experimentation Framework, in Proceedings of the D-A-CH Conference on Energy Informatics (Energieinformatik 2015), November 2015, Karlsruhe, Germany
  3. Michael Hoefling, Florian Heimgaertner, Daniel Fuchs, Michael Menth, Paolo Romano, Teklemariam Tesfay, Mario Paolone, Jimmie Adolph, and Vidar Gronas: Integration of IEEE C37.118 and Publish/Subscribe Communication, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), June 2015, London, UK
  4. Florian Heimgaertner, Michael Hoefling, Barbara Vieira, Erik Poll, and Michael Menth: A Security Architecture for the Publish/Subscribe C-DAX Middleware, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (IoT/CPS-Security 2015) collocated with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), June 2015, London, UK
  5. Michael Hoefling, Florian Heimgaertner, Michael Menth, Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Paolo Romano, Lorenzo Zanni, and George Kamel: Enabling Resilient Smart Grid Communication over the Information-Centric C-DAX Middleware, in Proceedings of the ITG/GI International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2015), March 2015, Cottbus, Germany
  6. Michael Hoefling, Florian Heimgaertner, Michael Menth, and Herman Bontius: Traffic Estimation of the PowerMatcher Application for Demand Supply Matching in Smart Grids, in Proceedings of the ITG/GI Workshop on Middleware for a Smarter Use of Electric Energy (MidSEE 2015) collocated with the ITG/GI International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2015), March 2015, Cottbus, Germany
  7. Michael Hoefling, Cynthia G. Mills, and Michael Menth: Distributed Load Balancing for Resilient Information-Centric SeDAX Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), May 2014, Krakow, Poland
  8. Michael Hoefling, Florian Heimgaertner, Benjamin Litfinski, and Michael Menth: A Perspective on the Future Retail Energy Market, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Demand Modeling and Quantitative Analysis of Future Generation Energy Networks and Energy Efficient Systems (FGENET2014), March 2014, Bamberg, Germany
  9. Michael Hoefling, Cynthia G. Mills, and Michael Menth: Analyzing Storage Requirements of the Resilient Information-Centric SeDAX Architecture, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), October 2013, Vancouver, Canada
  10. Michael Hoefling, Florian Heimgaertner, and Michael Menth: C-DAX: A Secure and Resilient Communication and Information Infrastructure for Power Grids, in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on "Renewable Energies, Smart Grid, and Green ICT", November 2012, Stuttgart, Germany

Talks

  1. Chris Develder, Herman Bontius, Michael Hoefling, Yue Cao, Paolo Romano, Matthias Strobbe, Wilfred Smith, Lorenzo Zanni: "Tutorial 4: Information-Centric Communication Infrastructure for Real-Time State Estimation of Distribution Networks using PMUs", in Proceedings of IEEE International Energy Conference (EnergyCon 2016), Leuven, Belgium, April 2016.
  2. Michael Hoefling: "Resilience Levels for Reliable Smart Grid Communication over the C-DAX Cloud", ITG FG521/524 Workshop: Cloud Networking, Tuebingen, Germany, September 2015.
  3. Florian Heimgaertner: "The C-DAX Security Architecture for Smart Grids", ITG FG522 Workshop: Neue Herausforderungen in der Netzsicherheit (ITG-NHNS), Tuebingen, Germany, September 2015.
  4. Michael Hoefling: "Storage Requirements for the Resilient Publish/Subscribe SeDAX Architecture", ITG FG521 Workshop: Zukünftige Netzarchitekturen, Stuttgart, Germany, February 2013.

Software

  1. jOSEF: A Java-based open-source smart meter gateway experimentation framework

Acknowledgements

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7-ICT-2011-8 under grant agreement n° 318708 (C-DAX). The authors alone are responsible for the content of the papers.