In order to respond to these challenges, many U.S. utilities have been investing in smart grid technologies for communications, monitoring, computation and control purposes. Among its capabilities, the smart grid enables better outage management, grid selfhealing, demand response, dynamic pricing, preventive maintenance of grid assets, integration of distributed generation resources, and two-wa...

The latest technological developments are challenging for finding new solutions to mitigate the massive integration of renewable-based electricity generation in the electrical networks and to support new and dynamic energy and ancillary services markets. Smart meters have become ubiquitous equipment in the low voltage grid, enabled by the decision made in many countries to support massive deplo...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can help the realization of low-cost power grid automation systems where multi-functional sensor nodes can be used to monitor the critical parameters of smart grid components. The WSN-based smart grid applications include but not limited to load control, power system monitoring and control, fault diagnostics, power fraud detection, demand response, and distributi...

The smart meters in electricity grids enable fine-grained consumption monitoring. Thus, suppliers could adjust their tariffs. However, as smart meters are deployed within the smart grid field, authentication and key establishment between smart grid parties (smart meters, aggregators, and servers) become an urgency. Besides, as privacy is becoming a big concern for smart meters, smart grid parti...

The purpose of this paper is to do a general survey on the existing communication modes inside a smart grid, the existing security loopholes and their countermeasures. Then we suggest a detailed countermeasure, building upon the Jigsaw based secure data transfer [8] for enhanced security of the data flow inside the communication system of a smart grid. The paper has been written without the con...

This paper presents the case for using a systems approach to analyse the requirements and behaviours of the Smart Grid as well as designing relevant solutions. By linking systems thinking to agent-based modelling, we discuss how a Smart Grid can be modelled as Multi-Agent Systems by reviewing some related state-of-the-art research. This paper goes on to outline two research areas that we are de...

The drive for improved power system efficiency, stability and flexibility has served as a catalyst for Smart Grid research and development, so the communications networks in Smart Grid must facilitate the wide-scale utilization of various communications systems, enable the interoperability among various communications protocols, and provide secure and reliable communications for the smart grid....

The traditional electrical grid is currently undergoing a range of modernization effort s and becoming a smarter grid [1] . In the traditional electrical grid, energy is distributed from the generation plants to the consumers via large nationwide transmission and distribution networks. Information monitoring and management in these traditional electrical networks is typically limited to the dis...

The Smart Grid intends to provide good power quality, energy cost reduction and improve the reliability of the electricity distribution Grid. In order to accomplish these goals, technology for monitoring and control should be integrated to the communication network. In this research we investigate the monitoring of the neighborhood area network in the distribution network of the power grid. We ...