A survey on smart grid communication infrastructures: Motivations, requirements and challenges

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-20

  Yan, Ye ^a   Qian, Yi ^a   Sharif, Hamid ^a   Tipper, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication infrastructure; Cyber security; Intelligent network; Interconnected power system; Monitoring; Sensing; Smart grid

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CARBON FUELS; COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; CYBER SECURITY; INDUSTRIAL TRIAL; INTELLIGENT HOME; PERVASIVE COMMUNICATIONS; POWER RELIABILITY; REMOTE MONITORING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SENSING; SMART GRID; SMART GRID COMMUNICATIONS; SMART GRID SYSTEMS;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; MONITORING; MOTIVATION; POWER QUALITY; SECURITY OF DATA;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84873743210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2012.021312.00034     Document Type: Review

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