The Smart Grid, generally referred to as the next-generation power system, is considered as a revolutionary and evolutionary regime of existing power grids. More importantly, with the integration of advanced computing and communication technologies, the Smart Grid is expected to greatly enhance efficiency and reliability of future power systems with renewable energy resources, as well as distri...

In a smart grid, the power service provider enables the expected power generation amount to be measured according to current power consumption, thus stabilizing the power system. However, the data transmitted over smart grids are not protected, and then suffer from several types of security threats and attacks. Thus, a robust and efficient authentication protocol should be provided to strength ...

Since the introduction of the smart grid, accelerated deployment of various smart grid technologies and applications have been experienced. This allows the traditional power grid to become more reliable, resilient, and efficient. Despite such a widespread deployment , it is still not clear which communication technology solutions are the best fit to support grid applications. This is because di...

The smart grid refers to next generation power grids, with multi-directional flows of electricity and information to make a wide distributed network. Through smart grid, the power system becomes smart by communicating, sensing, control and applying intelligence. For ideal system, the smart grid technologies are more compatible to permits many functions which can optimize with the combination of...

Smart Grid (SG) is a smart concept based on cerebral advanced technologies; SG also becomes a subject matter for research. It unified inventive machine and technologies starts from generation, transmission and distribution to the consumer usage. With the advancement in the technology, various steps are taking place to convert power grid to smart grid. At current stage various models of SG are c...

Power analysis is a successful cryptonalytic technique which extracts secret information from smart-cards by analysing the power consumed during the execution of their internal programs. These attacks are particularly dangerous in financial applications in which users insert their smart-cards into teller machines which are owned and operated by potentially dishonest entities. In this paper we d...

This work introduces a smart cross-layer architecture composed of a battery-less smart solar power system, a simple configurable power-aware MAC protocol, and an intelligent fuzzy-logic based autonomous configuration protocol. The design of the proposed protocols is derived from the fundamental principles of complementary areas, namely: electronics, protocol engineering, and artificial intellig...

This paper discusses on general aspects of smart grids and focuses on some smart grid features at distribution level like interconnection of distributed generation and active distribution management, using automated meter reading (AMR) systems in network management and power quality monitoring, application of power electronics in electricity distribution, plug-in vehicles as part of smart grids...

Rising demand, climate change, growing fuel costs, outdated power system infrastructures, and new power generation technologies have made renewable distribution generators very attractive in recent years. Because of the increasing penetration level of renewable energy sources in addition to the growth of new electrical demand sectors, such as electrical vehicles, the power system may face serio...

Smart grid integrates advanced sensing technologies, control methodologies, and communication technologies into current electricity grid at transmission and distribution levels in order to supply electricity in a smart, user friendly way. Smart grid encourages integration of renewable energy sources, distributed generation, and plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles in distributed power systems, ...