IEEE SmartGridComm Symposium on

Networking for Smart Grid

 

Symposium Co-Chairs
Anjan Bose Washington State University, USA	David E. Culler University of California at Berkeley, USA	Jean-Philippe Vasseur Cisco Systems, France

Scope and Motivation

A number of networking technologies will be involved to form the core of sophisticated communication systems that will support a wide range of Smart Grid applications such sub-station automation, smart metering, demand side management, micro-grid management, demand response to mention a few. These new applications will requires a wide range of networking technologies in the core network, Filed Area Network (FAN), Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) and the Home and Building Area network (HAN and BAN), involving a number of link layers: from high-speed links to wired and wireless low power and rate limited links (e.g. Wifi, PowerLine, IEEE 802.15.4 and many others).

IP Technologies have been developed in a number of private networks and in the public Internet over the past three decades to build highly secure and reliable networks, capable of supported differentiated services in terms of quality of service and level of redundancy, multicast operation while supporting a wide range of link layers, thus forming a comprehensive and highly flexible end-to-end architecture. IP, and in particular IPv6, will undoubtedly play a central role in Smart Grid networks, from the core of the network to low-end constrained devices in sub-station, smart meter but also in homes and buildings. To that end, a variety of new link layers have emerged (both wired and wireless), new IPv6 protocols have been defined at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to provide efficient header compression over low-speed link layer, efficient mechanism for the support of multicast, a new routing protocol has been defined for large scale networks made of "low power and lossy" networks (called RPL) and other IP protocols are being defined in a newly formed Working Group.

Topics of Particular Interest

Original papers are welcome that explore the following (non limited) aspects of networking for Smart Grid:

1. The role of IPv6 for Smart Grid networks
2. IP security technologies for the Smart Grid networks
3. Lightweight IP networking stacks for constrained devices
4. Low power link layer technologies (PLC and Wireless)
5. 6LowPan
6. Routing issues in Low power and Lossy Networks
7. Management in large scale Smart Grid networks
8. Performance management in Smart Grid network
9. FAN, HAN, NAN and BAN architecture issues
10. Application monitoring of constrained devices
11. Resource and service discovery

Submission Guidelines

Submission deadlines and format requirements are the same for all symposia, see here

Papers can be submitted here

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members

David Bakken, Washington State University, USA
Subir Das, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
Choong Seon Hong, Deparment of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Jae-Jo Lee, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Korea
Stefan Mozar, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Ioannis Papapanagiotou, North Carolina State University, USA
Sumit Roy, University of Washington, USA
Kevin Tomsovic, University of Tennessee, USA
Andrea Tonello, University of Udine, Italy