[Tccc] IEEE Workshop on Smart Grid Communications: Design for Performance (SGComm 2012 at Globecom-2012)

Periklis Chatzimisios peris
Mon Jun 4 04:19:03 EDT 2012


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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Workshop on Smart Grid Communications: Design for Performance 
(SGComm 2012)

(in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2012)
Anaheim, California, Friday December 7, 2012

http://sgcomm.it.teithe.gr

Endorsed by the IEEE Technical Committee on Communications Systems 
Integration and Modeling (CSIM), the IEEE Technical Committee on 
Transmission, Access and Optical Systems (TAOS) and the IEEE 
Communication Society Committee on Smart Grid Communications (SGCC)

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Electric power represents a fundamental aspect of modern life and severe 
disruptions (e.g. large scale blackouts) have a disproportionate 
negative impact on it. Main electricity grid operations have started 
changing at an increased pace, due to the integration of renewable 
sources of energy (wind, solar, geothermal). Due to the inherent 
variability in the supply of such sources, together with their distinct 
power characteristics, it has become imperative for the power grid to 
support not only two-way electricity flows, but also have 
demand-response mechanisms to allow users to adapt to real-time price 
signals. Hence, Smart Grid technologies that couple metering, 
monitoring, communications and control are of paramount importance for 
enabling these operations. Further, communication and information 
technologies are already utilized to meet the challenges for Green 
Communications.

The Smart Grid Communications Workshop will be a combination of original 
papers, quick hot topic presentations, distinguished invited speakers 
and a panel discussion with participants from industry, funding agencies 
and academia. This will allow workshop participants to obtain a global 
perspective of the scope of this area and of the technical challenges 
associated with it, in a participative and interactive manner.


Topics of interest
The IEEE Workshop on Smart Grid Communications: Design for Performance 
(SGComm 2012) will bring together researchers from Academia and 
Industry, to identify and discuss technical challenges, exchange novel 
ideas, explore enabling technologies, and report latest research efforts 
that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

  * Communication architectures, networks and protocols for Smart Grid
  * Smart Grid networking infrastructure design and performance
  * Networking for smart metering, demand response management and pricing
  * Wide-area measurement, monitoring and control
  * Smart cities, buildings and home automation
  * Security and privacy issues in Smart Grid Communications
  * Quality of service and cross-layer in Smart Grids
  * Interconnection & Communications of electric vehicles and Smart Grid
  * Standardization activities for Smart Grid Communications
  * Energy efficient mobile and wireless/wired access networks
  * Architectures and frameworks for energy efficient network services
    and applications


Submission Procedure
Submitted papers must represent original material which is not currently 
under review in any other conference or journal and has not been 
previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-pages standard 
IEEE conference two-column format (including all text, figures, and 
references). Please refer to the workshop web pages for submission 
instructions.

All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM 
2012 proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude an accepted and 
registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. 
Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for 
publication in Special Issues of prestigious International Journals.


Workshop Chair:
Prof. Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University, USA

Technical Committee Co-Chairs:
Prof. George Michailidis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece


Important Dates
Manuscript submission: June 15, 2012
Acceptance Notification: July 10, 2012
Camera-ready: August 1, 2012





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