Smart Grid ─ Networking, Data Management, and Business Models

The electric grid, empowered by intelligence, is transforming our society in many aspects, including communities that share power and smart homes that save energy. The traditional components of the electric grid, i.e., generation, transmission, distribution and consumption are evolving with innovations coming from different backgrounds. This book offers a clear presentation of networking, data management and business models in the smart grid plus a thorough understanding of cutting-edge topics such as microgrids, electric vehicles, grid analytics and dynamic pricing.

Dr. Hussein T. Mouftah is a Distinguished University Professor and Senior Canada Research Chair in Wireless Sensor Networks at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has been with the ECE Dept. at Queen’s University (1979-2002), where he was prior to his departure a Full Professor and the Department Associate Head. He has six years of industrial experience mainly at Bell Northern Research of Ottawa (then known as Nortel Networks). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Magazine (1995-97) and IEEE ComSoc Director of Magazines (1998-99), Chair of the Awards Committee (2002-03), Director of Education (2006-07), and Member of the Board of Governors (1997-99 and 2006-07). He has been a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Communications Society (2000-2008). He is the author or coauthor of 9 books, 60 book chapters, and more than 1300 technical papers, 12 patents, and 140 industrial reports. He is the joint holder of 19 Best Paper and/or Outstanding Paper Awards. He has received numerous prestigious awards, such as the 2007 Royal Society of Canada Thomas W. Eadie Medal, the 2007-2008 University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research, the 2008 ORION Leadership Award of Merit, the 2006 IEEE Canada McNaughton Gold Medal, the 2006 EIC Julian Smith Medal, the 2004 IEEE ComSoc Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, the 2004 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research of the U of O Faculty of Engineering, the 1989 Engineering Medal for Research and Development of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), and the Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award of the Ontario Innovation Trust. Dr. Mouftah is a Fellow of the IEEE (1990), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2003), the Engineering Institute of Canada (2005) and the Royal Society of Canada RSC Academy of Science (2008).

Dr. Melike Erol Kantarci is the coordinator of the Smart Grid Communications Lab and a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada. She received the PhD and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering in 2009 and 2004 respectively from Istanbul Technical University. During her PhD studies, she was a Fulbright visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She received the B.Sc. degree from the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University, in 2001. She has received a Fulbright PhD Research Scholarship (2006) and the Siemens Excellence Award (2004), and she has won two Outstanding/Best Paper Awards. She has delivered tutorials and invited talks at various venues including CCECE’14, Communications Research Center (CRC) of Canada, National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, IEEE Ottawa Chapter and Turkish Naval Research Center. She is an occasional reviewer of transactions and journals, and a TPC member for various conferences. Her main research interests are smart grid, cyber-physical systems, electrification of transportation, wireless sensor networks, underwater sensor networks, mobility modeling, localization and internet traffic analysis. She has over 900 citations and her h-index is 18 according to Google Scholar. She is an editor of International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks published by Hindawi. She is an IEEE member and the vice chair for Women in Engineering (WIE) at the IEEE Ottawa Section.