IEEE COMST - Special Issue on Energy and Smart Grid - New Deadline

CALL FOR  PAPERS
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IEEE  Communications Surveys and Tutorials-Special Issue on Energy and Smart  Grid

(http://www.comsoc.org/sites/default/files/webfm/Publications/Journals/cst/cfp/COMST-CFP-Smart-Grid.pdf)

The  next generation electric grid, also known as smart grid, is expected to be  scalable, reliable, and secure and enhance efficient energy consumption and  deployment of renewable and distributed energy generation. The modern  communications and networking technologies will play a vital role in the future  smart grid by supporting two-way energy and information flow and enabling  efficient monitoring, control, and optimization of different grid  functionalities and smart power devices. The emerging field of smart grid has  introduced several new challenges for the communications and networking research  communities. It has also created new multi-disciplinary research opportunities  and potentials for collaborations with industries.

The aim of this special issue is to collect from academic and  industrial players tutorials and surveys related to latest smart grid and energy  related technologies and architectures. Contributions on major developments and  updates on smart grid systems will be considered.

The topics relevant to this special issue include but are not limited  to:

• Communication Architectures and Protocols for Smart Grids
• Smart  Grids for Green Communications and Green Computing, Green Data Centers

• Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Wide-area Monitoring Systems
• Power Line  Communications and Physical Layer Design for Smart Grid Communications
• Integration of Green and Renewable (wind, solar, geothermal, etc.) Energy  Sources

• Smart Grid Cyber Security, Intrusion Detection, False Data  Injection Attacks
• Vehicle-to-Grid Networks and Interconnection of Electric  Vehicles
• Home-area Energy Automation, ZigBEE and HomePlug Solutions, Demand  Response

Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be  considered. Guidelines on paper formats are available at (http://www.comsoc.org/cst/information-authors). Full  papers should be submit to Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/comst-ieee).

Important Dates:

    Submission deadline: April 30, 2013 (New Deadline)
    Author Notification: July  2013
    Final Manuscript: September 2013

    Publication: Q1  2014

Guest Editors:

   Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (University of California at Riverside,  USA)
   Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy)
   Kui Ren (State  University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

   Chris Develder (University of  Ghent, Belgium)
   Lijun Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
    Tao Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
   Xue Liu  (McGill University, Canada)