[We apologize if you receive multi-copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Special Issue on “Smart Grid Communication Systems: Reliability, Dependability & Performance” Smart Grid technologies aim at facilitating a reliable and efficient delivery of electricity to consumers using two-way digital communications technologies, which allows utility providers and consumers to constantly monitor and control the delivery network as well as electricity consumption for the purpose of energy saving, cost reduction, and reliability enhancement. The development and deployment of Smart Grid technologies has become an urgent global priority. Communication and networking for control and data are at the core of the smart grid enabling technologies. Many challenges remain to be addressed such as resiliency, reliability, adaptability and agility needed in many of the smart grid environments. Another critical aspect of the Smart Grid communication is cyber security. Ensuring end-to-end grid security and resiliency is one of the biggest challenges of the Smart Grid vision. Not only is it necessary to ensure high-availability and real-time communication but also to ensure that communications are highly secure and also respect privacy issues. Cyber security also includes the protection of networks and servers from unauthorized accesses and malicious attacks, secure state estimation, intrusion detection, etc. This special issue is intended to bring together the most recent advances in the field of communication and security of Smart Grid from industry, government, and academia. Original, unpublished contributions and invited articles, reflecting various aspects of smart grid and security are encouraged. The topics of interest for the special issue include: · ICT solutions helping generation, distribution and consumption · novel or significantly improved PHY algorithms and technologies · innovative time-critical MAC and networking solutions for control · congestion & admission control and network resource optimization · self-organizing, -optimizing and -healing protocols · economically & technologically viable demand response mechanisms · optimization of standards-compliant protocols vital for smart grid operation · cyber security mechanisms for smart grid data and control data streams · novel security and key management protocols tailored to smart grids · innovative but viable privacy solutions, including escrow approaches · tailored security solutions to SCADA and electric grid state estimation systems · representative (large-scale) field trials with measurements and feedback Papers must be tailored and explicitly consider the problems of Smart Grids. The editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the IEEE-TSG guidelines (http://www.ieee-pes.org/publications/information-for-authors), in particular respecting the page limits. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscript Center (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tsg-pes) according to the timetable below. • Manuscript submission: Mar. 31, 2012 • First reviews complete: Jul. 1, 2012 • Second reviews complete/all acceptance letters sent: Sept. 1, 2012 • Materials to publisher: Oct. 15, 2012 • Publication: TBD Guest Editors: Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, Email: [email protected] Nei Kato, Tohoku University, Email: [email protected] Weiyi Zhang, AT&T Labs Research, Email: [email protected] Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Email: [email protected] Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory, Email: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kui Ren Assistant Professor ECE Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology Web: www.ece.iit.edu/~kren _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
