Publications by Miroslav Popovic

Redundancy in Communication Networks for Smart Grids

Traditional electric power grids are currently undergoing fundamental changes: Representative examples are the increase in the penetration of volatile and decentralized renewable-energy sources and the emerging distributed energy-storage systems. These cha ...

EPFL2016

Performance Assessment of Linear State Estimators Using Synchrophasor Measurements

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Styliani Sarri, Miroslav Popovic, Lorenzo Zanni

This paper aims to assess the performance of linear state estimation (SE) processes of power systems relying on synchrophasor measurements. The performance assessment is conducted with respect to two different families of SE algorithms, i.e., static ones r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

iPRP - the Parallel Redundancy Protocol for IP Networks: Protocol Design and Operation

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Miroslav Popovic, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

Reliable packet delivery within stringent delay-constraints is of paramount importance to mission-critical computer applications with hard real-time constraints. Because retransmission and coding techniques counteract the delay requirements, reliability ma ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Experimental Validation of the Usability of Wi-Fi over Redundant Paths for Streaming Phasor Data

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Miroslav Popovic, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin, Athanasios Giannakopoulos

Applications performing streaming of phasor- measurement data require low latency and losses from the communication network. Traditionally, such requirements are realized through wired infrastructure. Recently, wireless infras- tructure has gained attentio ...

Ieee2016

iPRP: Parallel Redundancy Protocol for IP Networks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Miroslav Popovic, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

Reliable packet delivery within stringent delay constraints is of primal importance to industrial processes with hard real-time constraints, such as electrical grid monitoring. Because retransmission and coding techniques counteract the delay requirements, ...

2015

Real-Time State Estimation of the EPFL-Campus Medium-Voltage Grid by Using PMUs

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay, Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Styliani Sarri, Paolo Romano, Miroslav Popovic, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin, German Dario Flores Ponce

We describe the real-time monitoring infrastructure of the smart-grid pilot on the EPFL campus. We experimentally validate the concept of a real-time state-estimation for a 20 kV active distribution network. We designed and put into operation the whole inf ...

2015

Security Vulnerabilities of the Cisco IOS Implementation of the MPLS Transport Profile

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay, Miroslav Popovic, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Udaya Upul Kumara Jayasinghe

We are interested in the security of the MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP), in the context of smart-grid communication networks. The security guidelines of the MPLS-TP standards are written in a complex and indirect way, which led us to pose as hypothesis t ...

2014

On the Necessity of Traffic Shaping for PMU Measurement Data Streams

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Peng Gao, Miroslav Popovic

We study the communication network of an on-campus active distribution network (ADN) that comprises phasor measurement units (PMUs) connected to medium-voltage transformers. Within stringent time delays and with minimal loss the PMUs periodically transfer ...

2013

MPTCP Is Not Pareto-Optimal: Performance Issues and a Possible Solution

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ramin Khalili, Nicolas Gabriel Gast, Miroslav Popovic

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) has been proposed recently as a mechanism for transparently supporting multiple connections to the application layer. It is under discussion at the IETF. We nevertheless demonstrate that the current MPTCP suffers from two problems: P1 ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Energy Consumption Comparison Between Macro-Micro and Public Femto Deployment in a Plausible LTE Network

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ramin Khalili, Miroslav Popovic

We study the energy consumptions of two strategies that increase the capacity of an LTE network: (1) the deployment of redundant macro and micro base stations by the operator at locations where the traffic is high, and (2) the deployment of publicly access ...

2011