Low Voltage (LV) electricity distribution grid operations can be improved through a combination of new smart metering systems’ capabilities based on real time Power Line Communications (PLC) and LV grid topology mapping. This paper presents two novel contributions. The first one is a new methodology developed for smart metering PLC network monitoring and analysis. It can be used to obtain relev...

Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) are envisioned to be more popular during the next decade as part of Smart Grid implementations. Charging multiple PEVs at the same time within a power distribution area constitutes a major challenge for energy service providers. This paper discusses a priority-based approach for charging PEVs in a Smart Grid environment. In this work, ideas from the communicatio...

Homes, buildings and industrial facilities together represent nearly 100 % of the load on the electric grid. Beyond load, these facilities comprise a significant amount of electricity generation and thermal storage. These customer-owned load, storage and generation resources must be made responsive to needs of the electric grid in order to enable the Smart Grid. At issue is the best way to acco...

Power supply in the 21st century is facing more and more challenges, e.g., environment protection, energy shortage etc, such that the techniques related to power supply imminently need to be promoted. Complying with the development of green and lowcarbon economy, the concept of Smart Grid has been proposed. By and large, Smart Grid may be regarded as an important application of the techniques o...

Active consumer participation is seen as an integral part of the emerging smart grid. Examples include demandside management programs, incorporation of consumer-owned energy storage or renewable energy units, and active energy trading. However, despite the foreseen technological benefits of such consumer-centric grid features, to date, their widespread adoption in practice remains modest. To sh...

Recently, smart grid, which is a newer generation of electricity supply network, is getting lots of attentions due to its huge benefits. One key component of the smart gird is an integrated communication network. To make the smart grid more dependable, it is extremely important to ensure that messages are exchanged over the communication network in a reliable and timely manner. A multiple path ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been utilized in a wide range of smart grids applications due to their capabilities to monitor environmental phenomena or connect the physical world to the virtual word. For smart grid applications, supporting the Quality of Service (QoS) is the main requirement from WSNs, such as transmitting delay-critical data from smart grid assets as fast as possible or ...

The Smart Grid concept introduces an updated architecture and new elements to the traditional power grid. As a result, existing survivability schemes that have been designed with a centralized architecture in mind are either inefficient or no longer applicable. In this paper, we review several solutions that have been suggested in the literature in order to ensure the proper operation of the po...

Smart grids (SG) represent succeeding step in modernizing this electrical grid. The communications network is combined with the Smart grid so as to collect data that may be used to increase the potency of the grid, reduce power consumption, and improve the reliability of services, among different varied benefits. Smart Grid communication networks are distinctive in their giant scale. . The Wire...

To foster innovation, address energy independence, react to global warming, and increase emergency resiliency, governments around the world are promoting efforts to modernize electricity networks by instigating smart grid, e-energy and e-mobility initiatives [5, 6, 3, 4]. A smart grid refers to efforts that enhance and extend today’s electric power grids with information processing technology t...