[Tccc] Post-Doc Position in Paris, France - Cisco and T...

Daniel Kofman kofmanatenst.fr
Tue Nov 13 21:01:29 EST 2012



 Post-Doc Position
Subject: Architecture and functionality for future federated smart grids,
inter-vehicular systems and smart cities.
 
Proposed by CISCO and Telecom-ParisTech  


Prof. Daniel Kofman; contact: daniel.kof... at telecom-paristech.fr
<mailto:daniel.kof... at telecom-paristech.fr>
Dr. Jean-Pierre Vasseur, contact: j... at cisco.com <mailto:j... at cisco.com>
General Context
Electricity companies are historical facing two major difficulties: on the
one hand, the structure of the demand curb imposes large CAPEX investments
in resources that are not used most of the time, and, on the other hand, the
OPEX is high due to the lack of automation in several segments of their
(electricity) networks. Many electricity companies have initiated
modernization processes to cope with both issues.
Automation requires massively deployment of sensors and actuators at
different levels of their networks and systems. The connectivity of these
devices to aggregators and of the aggregators to the Information Systems
requires specific network and services solutions.
Three approaches to better manage the demand curb are:
1.     To leverage the potential of local energy generation
2.     To gain knowledge and control on the customers appliances, through
for example Internet of things like paradigms.
3.     To introduce storage.
Electrical vehicles will play a central role on future electric systems. It
is well known today that a sustained growth of the park of electrical
vehicles will create severe peaks of the load at specific times of the day.
More interesting, electrical cars may be seen as a component of the solution
instead of as an additional problem: their batteries could contribute to an
efficient energy management through the deployment of distributed storage
systems. Innovative architectures are being studied for the support of
battery charging in different contexts and even while in movement. Those
systems require specific and sophisticated inter-vehicular (V2V) and Vehicle
to Infrastructure (V2I) networking capabilities beyond the state of the art.
The last element of the eco-system we would like to consider relates to
smart cities, and in particular Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) that are
as well based on massive deployment of sensors and actuators requiring
specific networking and system architectures.


Topics of research
The proposed research activity will focus on the following main topics:
1. Identify use cases for the federation of smart grid systems, V2V and V2I
communications and smart city systems, targeting an overall optimization of
the electric network as well as the provision of advanced services to end
users. The use cases will be used to validate the solution proposed in the
rest of the study.
2. Define the overall federation architecture so as to enable the efficient
control of the smart grid, answering the requirements of the identified use
cases.
3. Identify the required functionality for the specific gateways/routers
introduced above and design part of it.
4. Evaluate qualitatively and quantitatively the structure of the demand
generated by the identified use cases and carry out a performance analysis
of the proposed solutions.
 
Timeframe and Location
Duration: The extent of the position is for 1 year and may be extended for
additional 6 months.
Starting Date: No earlier than December 1st 2012, preferably no later than
March 1st 2013
Location: The candidate will closely collaborate with both CISCO and Telecom
ParisTech colleagues. The research will be mainly conducted at Telecom
ParisTech (Paris, France) and more specifically at LINCS premises
(www.lincs.fr <http://www.lincs.fr/> ). Working visits will be organized at
CISCO premises.
Applicants should submit a resume and the names of two references to Prof.
Kofman  via email. 
 For further details, please contact us at the above addresses.


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