The resiliency, reliability, and security of the next-generation power grid depend upon leveraging the advanced communication and computing technologies efficiently. Also, developing real-time data-driven applications is critical to enable enhanced monitoring and control of the cyber-power grid. The advanced tools, applications, and associated network technologies must be evaluated, and validated before deployment in the realistic environment. This necessitates a real-time cyber-power testbed with the scalable cyber and power system simulation, emulation, or hardware interface. This work mainly focuses on real-time testbed development for cyber-power analysis. Two cyber-power testbeds used for different smart grid use cases have been developed.The first testbed in this work is a real-time, multi-layer, multi-vendor cyber���power testbed to support power grid operation and planning. By integrating a host of features across three core layers---physical power system, communication network, and monitoring/control center with advanced tools---this testbed provides a platform to model and simulate rich and diverse cyber-power grid scenarios and generate realistic sensors and network data. In this testbed, NS3 is used to simulate the network, Hypersim to model the power system and integrate different tools to model the control center environment. Generating realistic grid data, creating cyber-attack scenarios, resiliency-driven planning and analysis, and application validation are the use cases performed using this testbed.

The second testbed relates to a collaborative co-simulation work between WSU and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), designed to analyze end-to-end synchrophasor systems and applications. This work presents a cyber-power co-simulation testbed using NS3 to model communication network, GridPACK (developed by PNNL) for the power grid modeling, and HELICS (developed by PNNL) as a co-simulation engine. This testbed mainly focuses on the comparative analysis of latency between different synchrophasor networks following the North American Synchrophasor Initiative Network (NASPlnet) guidance and alternative architecture supported by a case study.