Upgrading current electricity grid to the so-called Smart Grid represents one of the major
engineering challenges ever. Hence, the road toward the Smart Grid will be long and needs …

Advanced metering infrastructures (AMIs) represent one of the first steps in the smart grid
process, where power line communication (PLC) is emerging as the most cost-effective …

Power line communication has recently attracted the attention of energy companies as a
useful and natural technology for building the advanced metering infrastructure. In this …

The present work analyzes and compares two popular standards for data transmission over
power line networks: PRIME and G3. A complete and detailed description of both standards …

Power Line Communications is a relatively new area of telecommunication. PLC employs
full duplex methods for transmitting data over power lines as medium of transmission of …

High-data-rate narrowband Power Line Communication (PLC) is a prominent candidate for
smart grid communications in the low-voltage grid at low operational costs. However, the …

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a popular narrow band power line
communication (PLC) solution (referred to as PoweRline Intelligent Metering Evolution or …

This paper proposes a simulation's architecture that allows for the analysis of the
performance when using the Power Line Communication's technology. In concrete, it studies …

In order to manage the electricity consumption information of microgrid users, the reliability
of electricity information collection is studied in this paper. The normal communication …

The presented paper addresses the problem of impulsive noise interferences in Power Line
Communication (PLC) systems. In order to provide a realistic scenario, a popular narrow …