One of the major breakthroughs in neuroscience is the emerging understanding of how signals from the external environment are extracted and represented in the primary sensory cortices of the mammalian brain. The operational principles of the rest of the cortex, however, have essentially remained in the dark. The discovery of grid cells, and their functional organization, opens the door to some ...

Context and situational awareness are key features and trends of the smart grid and enable adaptable, flexible and extendable smart grid services. However, the traditional hardware-dependent communication infrastructure is not designed to identify the flow and context of data, and it focuses only on packet forwarding using a pre-defined network configuration profile. Thus, the current network i...

Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techniques present common problems related to the use of inaccurate and out-of-date information, which degrade the global system performance. Besides that, they also do not properly model a grid environment. In order to adeq...

In this paper, we investigate how Cognitive Radio as a means of communication can be utilized to serve a smart grid deployment end to end, from a home area network to power generation. We show how Cognitive Radio can be mapped to integrate the possible different communication networks within a smart grid large scale deployment. In addition, various applications in smart grid are defined and dis...

We consider line outages in the transmission network of the power grid, and specifically those caused by natural disasters or large-scale physical attacks. In such networks, an outage of a line may lead to overload on other lines, thereby leading to their outage. Such a cascade may have devastating effects not only on the power grid but also on the interconnected communication networks. We stud...

Grids rely on a complex interconnection of IP domains that may exhibit changing performance characteristics and may offer different quality of service (QoS) facilities. As lot of distributed applications require controlled communication performance, a Grid Service allowing applications to specify QoS objectives and controlling the realization of these goals in a multi IP domains context is requ...

The smart grid has been the hot topic all round the world, which involves many advanced technologies. It is very important for improving the managing efficiency, energy-saving, safe performances and so on. However, for it comes down to many subjects, its development has also been limited, applications of it in the grid has still existed some shortcomings. As a part of the new kind of communicat...