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Advanced signal processing techniques and telecommunications network infrastructures for Smart Grid analysis, monitoring and management

This special issue addresses the development of new, advanced, signal processing methods for studying the characteristics of highly non-stationary waveforms involved in the analysis, monitoring and management of electrical quantities at nodes of the Smart Grid. The features of the considered methods also determine the requirements of the communication infrastructures that can operate either locally, at the various system nodes that cooperate to take into account the interdependence of the electrical characteristics of each node, or in a centralized way, by collecting in a single node the information acquired at each node.

Edited by: Antonio Bracale, Julio Barros, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Gary Chang and Emiliano Dall'Anese

  1. This paper presents a distributed approach to optimal power flow (OPF) in an electrical network, suitable for application in a future smart grid scenario where access to resource and control is decentralized. ...

    Authors: Tomaso Erseghe
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2015 2015:45
  2. Electric grids are interconnected complex systems consisting of generation, transmission, distribution, and active loads, recently called prosumers as they produce and consume electric energy. Additionally, th...

    Authors: Leandro Rodrigues Manso Silva, Calos Augusto Duque and Paulo F Ribeiro
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2015 2015:44
  3. With the onset of large numbers of energy-flexible appliances, in particular plug-in electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, a significant portion of electricity demand will be somewhat flexible and accordingly...

    Authors: Yuquan Shan, Jayaram Raghuram, George Kesidis, David J Miller, Anna Scaglione, Jeff Rowe and Karl Levitt
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2015 2015:29
  4. This paper analyzes the characteristics of narrowband power line communication (NB-PLC) channels and assesses their performance when used for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) communications. This medium ...

    Authors: José Antonio Cortés, Alfredo Sanz, Pedro Estopiñán and José Ignacio García
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2015 2015:27
  5. In recent years, there has been great interest in using hybrid spread-spectrum (HSS) techniques for commercial applications, particularly in the Smart Grid, in addition to their inherent uses in military commu...

    Authors: Mohammed M Olama, Xiao Ma, Stephen M Killough, Teja Kuruganti, Stephen F Smith and Seddik M Djouadi
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2015 2015:25
  6. Distribution system state estimation is a fundamental tool for the management and control functions envisaged for future distribution grids. The design of accurate and efficient algorithms is essential to prov...

    Authors: Carlo Muscas, Marco Pau, Paolo Attilio Pegoraro and Sara Sulis
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2015 2015:17
  7. This work compares seven regression algorithms implemented in artificial neural networks (ANNs) supported by 14 power-quality features, which are based in higher-order statistics. Combining time and frequency ...

    Authors: José Carlos Palomares Salas, Juan José González de la Rosa, José María Sierra Fernández and Agustín Agüera Pérez
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2015 2015:16
  8. Power networks will change from a rigid hierarchic architecture to dynamic interconnected smart grids. In traditional power grids, the frequency is the controlled quantity to maintain supply and load power bal...

    Authors: Heiko Maaß, Hüseyin Kemal Cakmak, Felix Bach, Ralf Mikut, Aymen Harrabi, Wolfgang Süß, Wilfried Jakob, Karl-Uwe Stucky, Uwe G Kühnapfel and Veit Hagenmeyer
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2015 2015:14