SDN-enabled Platform for Energy-efficient Relay Protection Optical Port in Internet of Energy

To improve the energy conversion ability and well utilize renewable resources via achieving a Peer-to-Peer (PtP) sharing mechanism in the form of bi-directional energy transportation, the concept of “Internet of Energy (IoE)” was put forward. Thus, in this paper, by virtue of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a complementary platform is developed to make an effective decision for cooperative energy transmission and storage of relay protection optical port. The experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution. Introduction Our world has many types of potential energy generating ways that include electric power, petroleum, natural gas and renewable resources. However, due to the existence of industry barrier, the microgrids carrying diverse resources separately take their own load to satisfy the unique user demand, resulting in weak energy conversion ability and bad use of renewable resources. Moreover, the achievement of a Peer-to-Peer (PtP) energy sharing between Power Distribution Networks (PDNs) faces severe challenges because existing infrastructures lack the function of bi-directional (two-way) energy transportation. Also with imperfect energy storage facilities, it urgently requires a coordinative operation model. Server Network switch