smartgrid 2012 - First International Workshop on Smart Grid Wireless Communications

First International Workshop on Smart Grid Wireless Communications
“Wireless Communications the Key Enabling Technology of the Smart Grid”
In conjunction with the IEEE PIMRC 2012, 9-12 September 2012, Sydney, Australia.

Workshop website: http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/PIMRC-smartgrid-workshop

An integrated high performance reliable communications network is critical for the successful development and deployment of the future electricity generation, transmission, and distribution systems?known as the “smart grid.” The future smart grid will offer many benefits to the utility companies and the electricity consumers in the form of enhanced operational efficiencies and a flexible energy delivery system. The smart grid will offer these benefits by enabling a broad range of utility applications, including advanced metering, distribution automation, advanced demand response, outage management, mobile workforce connectivity, distributed generation and plug-in hybrid/electric vehicles (PHEVs) management systems. The smart grid architecture requires innovative technical solutions in the wireless communications area. The smart grid area opens up new research possibilities in wireless communications, including intensive investigations on network architecture, protocol, coding & Information theory, link design, heterogeneity, traffic modelling, cooperative communication techniques, and other techniques.

Topics of Interest
The purpose of this workshop will present high quality unpublished research papers on recent advances in wireless communications to support Smart Grid systems. This workshop brings together members of the communications, power, control and signal processing communities, working in both academia and industry. We are seeking original research and technology development contributions from academia, industries, regulatory bodies, as well as from standardization bodies.
Specific topics of interest for the workshop include (but not limited to):
?Access management techniques
?Radio resource allocation techniques
?Coding techniques
?Interference management techniques
?Security in the Smart Grid
?Smart Grid traffic prediction/modelling
?Implementation and experiments on Smart Grid communication systems
?Wireless network architecture
?Home Area Networks for the Smart Grid
?Access Networks for the Smart Grid
?Simulation modelling of Smart Grid communication networks
?Smart grid applications and traffic modelling
?Sensor networks for the smart grid
?NAN/FAN/WAN architecture, protocols
?Channel models
?Machine to Machine communication

Authors Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original contributions not previously published or currently under review by any other workshop, conference, or journal. Papers need to be uploaded via the EDAS PIMRC 2012 workshop submission link (http://edas.info/N12349) of this workshop and should follow the PIMRC 2012 paper submission guidelines. All submission must be written in English with a maximum paper length of Six (6) printed pages (10 point font) including figures and references. Note that the maximum number of pages for a paper is 6; any submission beyond 6 pages will not be accepted via the EDAS. All papers will be fully reviewed by multiple reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Explore. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g. removal from IEEE Explore) if it is not presented at the workshop.

Workshop Organising Committee

General Co chairs:
Yonghui Li, University of Sydney
Jamil Y. Khan, The University of Newcastle

TPC Chair:
Wibowo Hardjawana, University of Sydney

Members:
Jason Brown, The University of Newcastle
Neda Aboutorab, University of Sydney
Yochai Glick, Ericsson Australia
Keith Lynch, Ausgrid

Further information about the workshop can also be accessed via the PIMRC 2012 website http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/