Network virtualization for smart grid communications

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 471-482

  Lv, Pin ^a   Wang, Xudong ^b   Yang, Yang ^c   Xu, Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI RESEARCH CENTER FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Network virtualization (NV); orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based wireless mesh network (WMN); power line communication (PLC); smart grid

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; MESH NETWORKING; OPTICAL FIBERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SMART POWER GRIDS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

CONCURRENT TRANSMISSION; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; POWER LINE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS (PLC); SMART GRID; SMART GRID COMMUNICATIONS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84902295809     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2260695     Document Type: Article

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