For the grid and through the grid: The role of power line communications in the smart grid

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 998-1027

  Galli, Stefano ^a,b   Scaglione, Anna ^c   Wang, Zhifang ^d  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b ASSIA Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyber physical systems; power grid; power line channel; power line communications (PLC); smart grid

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSMISSION ON POWER LINES; CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEM; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; POWER GRIDS; POWER LINE CHANNELS; POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS; POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS (PLC); SMART GRID; SMART GRID APPLICATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 79956282243     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2109670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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