ICT Support for Adaptiveness and (Cyber)security in the Smart Grid  DAT300

Spring semester, study period 4, 2014

(DAT300 -- Masterclass in Areas of advance)

News:

• [2014-12-03] A new homepage for 2014/2015 can be found here.
• [2014-12-03] Final presentations are being scheduled. If you have not received the doodle, please contact us.
• [2014-04-08] Talk next week on Wednesday unfortunately has to be moved one week. The schedule below reflects the new time (Tuesday May 13)
• [2014-04-08] Slides for the presentations of weeks 2 and 4 were added.
• [2014-04-03] The preliminary presentation schedule can be found on the papers page, incuding resources for guidelines to prepare presentations and the link to the form for evaluating a presentation as opponent.
• [2014-03-20] Doodle updated so that the people registered on the course but still not have chosen at time slot can pick a Tuesday 09--10. We will update the homepage with the paper selection today. It is very important to then choose which paper to lead the discussion on.
• [2014-03-20] I just sent an email with information to choose papers / projects. Please contact magnus.almgren if you did not get it within the next couple of hours.
• [2014-03-20] Course has started. If you did not attend the introduction meeting but still want to participate, please send an email to magnus.almgren in the chalmers domain. Since there are several groups that prefers to postpone the project, we have the Tuesday slot but will have the project presentations at other times fitting the groups that can (want to) do the project before June this year.
• [2014-03-11] We will try to accomodate the meeting times for the course based on the students that participates. We have now booked two slots per week: Tuesdays 10--12; Thursdays 13--15, but if some of you also follow the security courses given in SP4, we will move the slots so you can also participate in this class. Just come to the first meeting.
  
• [2014-02-21] New draft home page created. Content will be added during February.
• [2014-02-21] The homepage from last year can be found here, note that the course code has changed.

Course Description

Examiner:

• Associate Professor Marina Papatriantafilou, phone: 031-772 5413, email: ptrianta
• Assistant Professor Magnus Almgren, phone: 031-772 1702, email: magnus.almgren
• Assistant Professor Olaf Landsiedel, phone: 031-772 1096, email: olafl

This is a so-called masterclass in the area of advance, giving an overview of the smart grid and important technologies from the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) area that is being used. The focus is on algorithms, distributed computing, communication and security. 

In Europe and elsewhere, the electrical grid is being transitioned into the "smart grid" in order to increase flexibility and accommodate large scale energy production from renewable sources. This transition involves, among other steps, the installation of new, advanced equipment - for example, the replacement of traditional domestic electrical meters with smart meters - and remote communication with devices - for example, allowing remote access to an unsupervised energy production site.

The course is built around (i) seminars and (ii) project work. Through the seminars you learn about the design or development of systems, infrastructure, and applications that are related to the electric power smart grid, with a focus on distributed algorithms and security. You are expected to give some presentations, as well as to participate actively in discussions. Through the second part of the course,  you are also expected to complete lab work, i.e. a significant project with relevance to the smart grid. In this way you will also gain experience at the front connecting research and education in the main domain overlapping two of the Areas of Advance, namely ICT and Energy.

Recommended text book
The course is built around seminars, lecture notes and research papers.

Study Material - List of Papers

Project Information

Schedule, notes, slides and other course material

The following course material is electronically available. Please note that the slides alone do not give a full coverage of the course contents.

The course meetings are mainly in room 3364 (the EDIT room), next to Linsen. A few instances will take place in another location, which will be highlighted on the meeting list below. As per the course memo, we will not use all slots marked in time edit as the second part of the course will be focused on your project.

We will try to accomodate the meeting times for the course based on the students that participates. We have now booked two slots per week: Tuesdays 10--12; Thursdays 13--15, but if some of you also follow the security courses given in SP4, we will move the slots so you can also participate in this class. Just come to the first meeting and we will reschedule the times if possible.

The presentation schedule can be found on the papers page, incuding resources for guidelines to prepare presentations and the link to the form for evaluating a presentation as opponent.

Extra Reading

1. Lecture 1: Insertion, Evasion, and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection

Course Evaluation

• Information on the process of course evaluation is found on the Course Evaluation page.
• The course representatives for the course 2013/2014 are the following (all emails in chalmers domain). Please contact them with any praise / concern that you may have.