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The 1st IEEE LCN Workshop on Smart Grid Networking Infrastructure
http://granite.csep.umflint.edu/IEEELCN-SGNI2010/index.html
In conjunction with
IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN'10)
Denver, Colorado, USA
11-14 October 2010
Call for Papers
Under an aging and ineffectual energy distribution system, unprecedented
initiatives have recently been instituted in many countries to ameliorate
the electric grid with the Smart Grid. The key facilitators of the Smart
Grid are two-way energy and information flow between the suppliers and
consumers. The conventional supply-chain of the energy is being expanded
to include alternative sources of energy, such as solar, wind, tidal,
biomass, etc. from a variety of distributed small and large energy
producers. The consumers are becoming more active participants by means of
such devices as smart meters, smart thermostats, smart appliances.
The grand vision of autonomic, self-healing Smart Grid with a dynamic
demand response model with pricing has many challenges, not the very
least, from the perspective of the networking infrastructure and
distributed computing. The sheer size of the contemplated Smart Grid of
the future is to rival the Internet in the number of participants. The
scalability, lack of standards for seamless integration of diverse
equipment and devices, and missing features and applications to bring
about the expected benefits are just beginning to get underway in the
networking research community. The purpose of this workshop is to form a
platform to exchange ideas among interested parties for the Smart Grid
from the perspective of the networking infrastructure.
Original, unpublished and unsubmitted work is sought in terms of
algorithms, techniques, architectures, position papers, visionary
approaches and modeling to enable the resilient, reliable and secure Smart
Grid. One of the main themes of the workshop is the real-time or near
real-time communications with guarantees. When the number of devices, from
smart appliances to the Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), and the
possibilities of di erent technologies, especially for the last-mile, are
considered, Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning becomes a challenging
endeavor. Other focal points comprises security, data aggregation, Smart
Grid monitoring and self-healing. Two-way information flow and the
voluminous data to be generated by the Intelligent Electronic Devices
(IED) are likely to put signicant strains on the privacy and security of
the data as well as its dissemination in the distributed setting as
envisioned for the Smart Grid.
The workshop program invites papers on various aspects of the Smart Grid
Networking topics including, but not limited to, the following:
* Wireless communications for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
and for the Smart Grid last mile
* Service-Oriented and QoS architectures (Di Serv, IntServ, MPLS,
etc.) for Smart Grid
* Security and QoS trade-o s in Smart Grid
* Home Area Networking (HAN) technologies with smart meters (OpenHAN,
sensors, Zigbee, etc.)
* Secure and flexible data aggregation, privacy considerations, and
network data anonymization
* Mobility issues of maintenance and installation dispatch teams of
the Smart Grid
* Demand Response with dynamic pricing on a real-time (or near
real-time) basis, such as Open Automated Demand Response (Open ADR)
* Intelligent status monitoring, fault detection, isolation,
self-healing, outage management, disaster prevention and recovery
systems, real-time load balancing, dynamic discovery
* Energy-efficient transmission switching and routing technologies for
the Smart Grid infrastructure and communications
* Neighborhood Area Networks (NAN) using wireless mesh networks
* ANSI C12.22 and IP interoperability and other compatibility issues
in the Smart Grid
* Multicast and multicast data authentication for the Smart Grid
* Wide area situational awareness (near real-time) monitoring and
performance
* Communications among Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) and
end-to-end IED services
* QoS assurances for a wide range of applications (including NASPInet
Class A, B, C, D) with different bandwidths, latency and reliability
requirements
* Next-generation Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) and
Inter-Control Center Protocol (ICCP)
* Precision time synchronization protocols for the Smart Grid for
real-time operation (Wide area time domain GPS synchronized sampling
systems (WATSS) )
* Wide area monitoring, protection, automation, communications, and
control (WAMPACC) message exchange protocols, Wide Area Measurement
System (WAMS), SCADA
* Networked Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) for wide-area monitoring
and forensics of the Smart Grid disturbances
* Transport layer mechanisms for PMU high streaming data applications,
such as Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP)
* Disseminating power grid status information within and between power
utilities
* Middleware for E2E guarantees for WAMPAC applications
Important Dates:
Paper Registration Deadline: May 9, 2010
Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2010, 11:59:59pm EST
Notification Of Acceptance: June 30, 2010
Author Registration By: July 28, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Due: July 28, 2010
Submission Instructions
Please submit your paper electronically (as PDF files) using EDAS.
Submitted papers must be limited to 8 pages (for full papers) with 10pt or
larger font size in standard IEEE Transactions double-column format
including text, figures and references. Please use US letter (8.5 x 11
inches) page size. All papers must include the title, complete contact
information for all authors, abstract and up to 5 keywords on the cover
page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. Papers not
conforming to the above instructions will not be reviewed.
Workshop Co-Chairs
Suleyman Uludag - University of Michigan - Flint
Kemal Akkaya - Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Klara Nahrstedt - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Technical Program Committee
Fred Baker, Cisco Systems
David Bakken, Washington State University
Rakesh Bobba, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa
Mehmet Gunes, University of Nevada Reno
Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester
Joseph Hughes, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Ahmed E Kamal, Iowa State University
Can Emre Koksal, Ohio State University
Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
Himanshu Khurana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Annabelle Lee, NIST
William Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas
Richard Schantz, BBN Technologies
Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame
Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida
Andrew West, Invensys
Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada Reno
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Kemal Akkaya
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
Tel: 618-453 60 54
Fax: 618-453 60 44
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