  This paper presents a novel algorithm for recovering missing data of phasor
measurement units (PMUs). Due to the low-rank property of PMU data, missing
measurement recovery can be formulated as a low-rank matrix-completion problem.
Based on maximum-margin matrix factorization, we propose an efficient algorithm
based on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving the
matrix completion problem. Comparing to existing approaches, the proposed ADMM
based algorithm does not need to estimate the rank of the target data matrix
and provides better performance in computation complexity. In addition, we
consider the case of measurements missing from all PMU channels and provide a
strategy of reshaping the matrix which contains the received PMU data for
recovery. Numerical results using PMU measurements from IEEE 68-bus power
system model illustrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed
approaches.
