[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ================================================================== Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Smart Grid Wireless Communications In Conjunction with the IEEE PIMRC 2012, 9-12 September 2012, Sydney, Australia. Workshop website: http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/PIMRC-smartgrid-workshop ==================================================================
The First International Workshop on Smart Grid Wireless Communications - "Wireless Communications - The Key Enabling Technology of The Smart Grid". ** Overview ** 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 modeling, 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 ** Topics of Interest ** The purpose of this workshop will present high quality unpublished research papers on recent advances in wireless communications to support Smart Grid systems.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. ** Important Dates ** Paper Submission Deadline: 20 April, 2012 (23:59:00 EDT) Acceptance Notification: 31 May 2012 Camera Ready: 24 June 2012 Workshop Date: 9 September 2012 ** 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 Organizing Members Jason Brown, The University of Newcastle Neda Aboutorab, University of Sydney Yochai Glick, Ericsson Australia Keith Lynch, Ausgrid TPC Members Tran Gia Khanh, Tokyo Institute of Technology Stevan Berber, Auckland University Manli Qian, Chinese Academy of Science Neda Aboutorab, The University of Sydney Suhono Supangkat, Institute of Technology Bandung Yuexing Peng, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunication Disk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology Susan Rea, Cork Institute of Technology Alexander Pelov, TELECOM Betange Eliane Bodanese, University of London Joshua Wall, CSIRO, Australia Eng Hwee Ong, Nokia Research, Finland Best regards, -------- Alexander PELOV Associate Professor Institut MINES-TELECOM ; TELECOM Bretagne Networks, Security and Multimedia Department 2 rue de la Châtaigneraie - CS 17607 35576 Cesson Sevigné Cedex- France Tel: +33 299 127 004 - Fax: +33 299 127 030 _______________________________________________ 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
