Developing and testing a novel busbar protection scheme for impedance-earthed distribution networks

Busbars are one of the most crucial components in the electricity grid and, as such, must always be protected against all types of faults. <br/>The busbar differential protection is a protection scheme typically utilized to protect the busbar system in high-voltage substations. Nevertheless, due to the vast number of substations in the...

Network Reconstruction for SIS Epidemics in Heterogeneous Populations

Exact network reconstruction from observations of the SIS process in discrete time would be very useful if possible, with implications for tracking the spread of infectious diseases, trends and news on social media. It could provide estimates for the strength of links in a network and the contribution of individual nodes to the spread of an...

Assessment of Benefits and Drawbacks of ICN for IoT Applications

According to its creators, ICN is designed to fit the way we use the internet better than IP currently does.<br/>The use of named data and distributed network layer caching may provide a more efficient utilization of<br/>network resources due to the stateful forwarding plane which allows data to be retrieved from caches<br/>close by the...

Effect of the optimisation time interval on the performance of mobile networks

This thesis project researches the effect of the optimisation time interval on the performance of a self-optimised mobile network. The goal of the thesis is to ascertain if there exists an optimal time interval for the self-optimisation of the KPN network, and what that interval is. In order to research this question, the project uses data from...

Robustness Analysis of the Dutch Synchromodal Freight Transport Network: Simulating Disruptions on a Macroscopic Graph Model

Freight transport is an essential component of the economy, as among other things it ensures the availability of finished goods to consumers. Synchromodal transport is a new transport method that aims to use real-time and flexible switching among different modes of transport according to the latest logistics information, to utilise the different...