Advanced metering infrastructure provides the first building block in smart grids by empowering customers and utilities with real-time information regarding energy use. It is a key element in the U.S. government’s push for electric grid modernization. Using a panel dataset for 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over the years 2007–2012, we evaluate the impacts of a polycentric governan...

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is a key part of the smart grid; thus, one of the most important concerns is to offer a secure mutual authentication.  This study focuses on communication between a smart meter and a server on the utility side. Hence, a mutual authentication mechanism in AMI is presented based on the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and one time signature (OTS) consists o...

In-network caching is a key feature of contentcentric networking. It is however a relatively costly mechanism with hardware requirements besides placement/replication strategies elaboration. As content-centric networking is proposed in the literature to manage smart grid (SG) communications, we aim, in this research work, to investigate the cost effectiveness of in-network caching in this conte...

The energy sector in Uzbekistan has been undergoing digitalization processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the reliability security of supply. This article explores efforts Uzbekistans sector, with a focus on smart grid technologies adoption advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for gas electricity. deploying modernize its infrastructure, integrate renewable sources, optimiz...

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is a component of electrical networks that combines the energy and telecommunication infrastructure to collect, measure analyze consumer consumptions. One main elements AMI smart meter used manage electricity generation distribution end-user. The rapid implementation raises need deliver better maintenance performance monitoring more efficiently while keepi...

The new generation of power metering system i.e. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is expected to enable remote reading, control, demand response and other advanced functions, based on the integration of a new two-way communication network, which will be referred as Smart Metering Network (SMN). In this paper, we focus on the design principles of multiple access control (MAC) protocols for...

Currently, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems have equipped the low voltage section with a communication system that is being used mainly for metering purposes, but it can be further employed for additional applications related to the Smart Grid (SG) concept. This paper explores the potential applications beyond metering of the available channel in a Power Line Communication-based A...