UTASG 2013 - IEEE Communications Magazine Ultimate Technologies and Advances for Future Smart Grid - UTASG

IEEE Communications Magazine
Ultimate Technologies and Advances for Future Smart Grid - UTASG
Aims and Scope
In light of current worldwide efforts to achieve energy efficiency, intensify usage of renewable energy sources, and reduce CO2 emissions, current electricity networks face many challenges, stemming from increasingly demand for electrical energy, as well as variable and distributed production. Hence, an evolution to so-called Smart Grids is inevitable. The Smart Grid is a complex end-to-end system, composed of multiple interconnected power sub-systems, inter-related to each other through diverse protocols with additional layers of technology (energy, communications, control/automation and IT). Developing the Smart Grid thus has become an urgent global priority, as its economic, environmental, and societal benefit will be enjoyed by generations to come. The UTASG Feature Topic is to support the evolving and advances of Future Smart Grid. The papers published in UTASG should address the ultimate new technologies required for underlying ICT architectures, monitoring and management improvements for Smart Grid systems.
Topics to be covered by UTASG include, but are not limited to:
Dependable Smart Grid Information Networking
Service-oriented Smart Grid Control Approaches and Middleware
Cyber Security Systems
IP-Based Smart Grid Applications
Wide Area Protection, Communication, Monitoring and Control in Energy Systems
Energy Management Systems (with applications to building and home automation)
Wireless communications for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
Smart Grid last mile communication
Smart Grid and Area Networks (HAN, IAN, BAN, FAN and NAN)
Architectures and Models for the Smart Grid
Standardization, Interoperability and Coexistence
Submission Guidelines
Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/pub_guideli.... It is very important to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline.
Important Dates
Manuscript Submission Due: June 1 2012
Acceptance Notification: September 1 2012
Final Manuscript Due: November 1 2012
Publication: January 2013
Guest Editors
José Neuman De Souza
Federal University of Ceará
Brazil
neuman-AT-ufc.br
Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute Alsace
France
lorenz-AT-ieee.org
Abbas Jamalipour
University of Sydney
Australia
a.jamalipour-AT-ieee.org