Abstract—The latest 4G wireless technology, Long Term Evolution (LTE), is expected to be a promising wireless network for smart grid communications due to its high data rate and low latency. However, Scheduling mechanism has a crucial role on the smart grid performance since it is responsible for resources allocation process among users taking into account delay, fairness, throughput and chann...

The critical infrastructure powering the nation is currently undergoing a massive collaborative effort to integrate modern technologies with 50 year-old assets derived from 100 year-old designs. Improving the existing electric power infrastructure with smart grid technologies compounds existing threats with new threats. Identification of next generation smart grid security threats is vital for ...

A host of technologies has been developed to achieve these aims of the smart grid. Some of these technologies include plug-in electric vehicle, demand response program, energy storage system and renewable distributed generation. However, the integration of the smart grid technologies in the power system operation studies such as economic emission unit commitment problem causes two major challen...

The smart meter is an important intelligent device on the Smart Grid that has the capability to report information related to power consumption, billing and other significant readings. The protection of smart meter communications against attacks is essential to ensure reliable operations of the Smart Grid. In this paper, we give an overview of smart meter applications, and we discuss the securi...

The customer domain of the smart grid naturally blends with smart home and smart building systems, but typical proposed approaches are “distributor-centric” rather than “customer-centric,” undermining user acceptance, and are often poorly scalable. To solve this problem, we propose a detailed architecture and an implementation of a “last-meter” smart grid—the portion of the smart grid on custom...

The increasing demand for electricity has necessitated the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the development of the smart grid. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are contributing technologies. In this paper, a review on AMI and WSN in the smart grid is carried out. Also, the introduction of WSNs with AMI in the in-home e...

Smart grid is a new developing concept in power system. This technology observes the state of power system and intelligently take decisions to quickly clear faults, restores power and monitor demand to preserve the stability and performance of the electric power network formerly done by engineers. This paper discusses the technologies of smart grid and presents a developed model to illustrate t...

Intelligent power grid research, i.e. smart grid, involves many simultaneous users spread over a relatively large geographical area. A tool for advancing research and community education is presented utilizing large-scale visualization centers, e.g. planetariums, in simulating smart grid interactions. This approach immerses the user in virtual smart grid visualization and allows the user, with ...

The smart grid is a complex system consisting of interdependent power grid and information and communication (ICT) components. Complex systems have different properties than simple networks and give raise to new risks and failure types. In this paper, we study the dependencies in smart grid and the influence ICT may have on the dependability. We start with giving a categorization of the smart g...

Radical changes in the energy system, at the lower network level, will require integration of smart houses in the smart grid in order to realize the full potential. Introduction of renewables, an increase of distributed generation, and the trend towards an all-electric infrastructure lead to an increase in complexity, system management effort and cost that the smart grid should provide an answe...