Smart grid involves the imposition of an advanced cyber layer atop the
physical layer of the electricity grid in order to improve the efficiency
and lower the cost of power use and distribution, and to allow for the
effective integration of variable energy sources and storage modes into the
grid. This cyber-physical setting motivates the application of many
techniques from the information and systems sciences to problems arising in
the electricity grid, and considerable research effort has been devoted to
such application in recent years. This talk will describe recent work on
three aspects of this problem:
applications of game theory to smart grid design; characterization of the
fundamental tradeoff between privacy and utility of information sources
arising in the grid; and distributed inferential algorithms that are
suitable for the topological constraints imposed by the structure of the
grid.
Title: Games, Privacy and Distributed Inference for the Smart Grid
05.07.2013
Date : 05.07.2013
Time: 11:00-13:00
Location : "Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH
Host : Panagiotis Tsakalides
H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor at
Princeton University, where he is also the Dean of Engineering and Applied
Science. His research interests are primarily in the areas of information
theory, statistical signal processing and stochastic analysis, and their
applications in various fields, including wireless communications, social
networks and smart grid. Dr. Poor is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is a member
of the US National Academy of Engineering, the US National Academy of
Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering of the UK, and the Royal Society
of Edinburgh. Recent recognition of his work includes the 2011 IEEE Eric E.
Sumner Award, a Royal Academy Distinguished Visiting Fellowship (2012), and
honorary doctorates from several universities in Europe and Asia.