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Call For Papers

IEEE Network Magazine

Special Issue on Communication Infrastructures for Smart Grid

Background

Over the past decades, rapid technological advancements and changes in electrical consumption behavior have drastically increased the demand on the power grid. In order to cope with future demand increases as well as to provide a more robust and efficient way of delivering and distributing electricity, developing smart grid has become an urgent global priority. In the past few years, governments have stepped up efforts to promote smart grid as a viable solution to future energy problems. Standards organizations are also shaping the development of smart grid by defining the characteristics of smart grid. At the same time, the industry begins to invest in enabling technologies for smart grid. With the growth of alternative energy generation and storage, the smart grid system will have to be able to intelligently integrate and control the different elements of the grid so as to realize the full potential of the system. Communication infrastructures are at the core of the smart ! grid as they will empower the legacy power grid with the capability of supporting two-way energy and information flow, isolating and restoring power outages more quickly, facilitating the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid and empowering the consumer with tools for optimizing their energy consumption. With most of the framework defined, there are still many important issues which need to be resolved before smart grid can be operationally ready for the market. We plan this special issue to help address that need, and would like the special issue to focus on recent advances as well as survey papers in communication infrastructures for smart grid.

Scope

The papers in this special issue will focus on research and experiments in various aspects of smart grid communication infrastructures. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but not limited to the following: • Demand Response • Network Resource Optimization • Congestion Management for Smart Grid Communications • Self-healing and Self-optimizing Networking • Networking for Smart Grid (e.g. ROLL, 6LoWPAN, IP) • Cyber Security and Privacy • Field Trials • Regulatory Issues • Standardization and Interoperability

Manuscript Submission

Articles should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for preparation of the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Guidelines for manuscripts" at the IEEE Network magazine web site at http://dl.comsoc.org/ni/. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, complete contact information (indicating the primary contact author), a 250-word abstract, and 3-5 keywords, via an e-mail to all of the guest editors. Papers outside of the scope of this special issue will be rejected; authors uncertain about the relevance of their paper should inquire with the guest editors before submission.

Schedule

Manuscript Submission: February 1, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2011 Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2011 Publication: September 2011

Guest Editors

Woon Hau Chin Toshiba Research Europe Limited w.h.chin@ieee.org

Rose Qingyang Hu Research In Motion rosehu@ieee.org

Nada Golmie National Institute of Standards and Technology nada.golmie@nist.gov

Yi Qian University of Nebraska-Lincoln yqian@ieee.org

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