An Autonomic and Ubiquitous Framework for Smart Grid Management

Smart grid is a network and telecommunications infrastructure with a set of applications and technical features such as interoperability with legacy systems, two-way communication, and ability to recover from failures, among others. Smart grid architecture is highly based on communications networks with new required and inherent advantages, such as greater efficiency and reliability to the system, allowing communication between intelligent devices in network. Among the challenges for the development of new generation network for smart grids, it is possible to highlight security, monitoring, management, control, quality of service and new technology updates. This paper focuses on investigating mechanisms for management and monitoring with ubiquitous and autonomic features aimed to better support smart grid solutions