Traditional electrical power grids are transitioning from centralised operation with
unidirectional energy and information flows (from the generation domain to customers) to …

Smart grid is envisioned to meet the 21st century energy requirements in a sophisticated
manner with real time approach by integrating the latest digital communications and …

Smart meter is one of the most important devices used in the smart grid (SG). The smart
meter is an advanced energy meter that obtains information from the end users' load devices …

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 …

With the recent initiatives to upgrade the existing power grid to the Smart Grid (SG), there
has been a significant interest in the design and development of an efficient communications …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) era is evolving into sensor initiated, actuation-driven,
and machine intelligence-based decision making platform for smart cities. A smart city …

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in smart cities in which a set of
applications, such as smart healthcare, smart lighting, and smart transportation promise to …

This article begins with a comprehensive presentation of architecture and essential
characteristics of a smart grid communication network (SGCN). Then different types of traffic …

In this paper, we discuss the state of the art of (mobile) multi-hop ad hoc networking with the
aim to present the current status of the research activities and identify the consolidated …

Smart grids (SG) represent the next step in modernizing the current electric grid. In this
structure, a communications network is combined with the power grid in order to gather …