The purpose of this survey is to present a critical overview of smart grid concepts, with a
special focus on the role that communication, networking and middleware technologies will …

This paper surveys the conceptual aspects, as well as recent developments in fault
detection, isolation, and service restoration (FDIR) following an outage in an electric …

Advanced communication/networking technologies should be integrated in next-generation
power systems (aka smart grids) to improve their resilience, efficiency, adaptability, and …

An advanced metering infrastructure is an integrated system of smart meters,
communications networks and data management systems designed to support the safe …

This paper studies the routing protocol “Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector
Routing Protocol–Next Generation (LOADng)”, designed to enable efficient, scalable and …

A new mathematical model and methodology are proposed to evaluate the performance of
large-scale RF-mesh networks that use time-slotted ALOHA with frequency hopping spread …

Smart Grid is the modern infrastructure of the electric grid, which has the objective to
improve efficiency, reliability, and security. This is achieved through the control automation …

Advanced meter infrastructures (AMIs) are now widespread and their importance within
smart grid systems continues to increase with the advent of new applications. Performance …

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is an enormous part of smart grid technology which
enables two way communications between the smart meter of customer and control centre …

This work deals with the performance analysis of a particular type of AMI: the RF-mesh
based smart meter network. The system implements a MAC access with a time-slotted …