Group Members
Graduates
- Ping Jiang
- Supreeth Sheshadri
- Ryan Johnston
Collaborators
Overview
GridStat is a middleware framework we are researching, prototyping, and developing. It provides flexible, robust, timely, and secure delivery of operational status information for the electric power grid.
In The News
August 2005 -- A team of researchers led by EECS computer science associate professors Carl Hauser and Dave Bakken together with Anjan Bose,
Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering, will play a major role in a National Science Foundation-sponsored research initiative intended to address the challenge of protecting the cybersecurity of the nation's power grid. WSU has been named as one of four universities that will participate in a new five-year collaborative research effort supported initially by an NSF grant of $7.5 million. Other collaborators are Cornell University, Dartmouth College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). UIUC will serve as the home of a national center to be called
Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIP)
early $1 million of the NSF grant money has been pledged to support WSU research.
The WSU researchers have been designing and developing GridStat, a communication system intended to improve the security, efficiency and reliability of the power grid. Poor communication of operational data has been recognized as a major contributing factor to all recent blackouts. GridStat is designed to overcome this problem. It delivers status information to participants in the power grid in a much more flexible and robust manner than is possible today. GridStat is the first operational implementation of such a flexible system. It has been deployed for two years in a technology demonstration project using real power grid data from Avista Utilities. The funding from this project will support further development of GridStat concepts and integration with technologies developed by other collaborators. WSU research will extend trust management concepts to provide more dynamic and adaptable access control for grid communications.
More information about the TCIP project can be found on the
TCIP website.
Acknowledgements
GridStat research is supported by Grant 0326006 from the National Science Foundation.
