Power Line Communication Systems for Smart Grids

Ivan Roberto Santana Casella (S'01-M'04-SM'19) is a full professor at the Center for Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences (CECS) of the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil, and founder and director of the Information and Communication Laboratories (LIC I and LIC II). He holds a master's degree and doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), with a doctoral internship at the Wireless Communication Laboratory at the department of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) of the University of Toronto (UofT). He is a senior member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), associate editor of the Electronics Letters of the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) and author of several articles in telecommunications and smart grid areas, which have resulted in some academic and scientific awards. He is also the author of several book chapters and books including Power Line Communication Systems for Smart Grids (2019) with IET and Smart Grids Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, Signal Processing and Communication Systems Applications (2024) with Springer. His main areas of interest are wireless communications, power line communications, smart grids, planar antennas design and energy harvesting.Alagan Anpalagan (S'98-M'01-SM'04) is a full professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (ECBE) of the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada, and director of the Wireless Networks and Communications Research (WINCORE) Laboratory. He received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto (UofT). Alagan served as editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Communications Letters and co-edited the Handbook on Green Information and Communication Systems, Academic Press (2012), Routing in Opportunistic Networks, Springer (2013), Design and Deployment of Small Cell Networks, Cambridge University Press (2015). His main areas of research are radio resource management, green communication, energy harvesting, small cell and heterogeneous networks, cognitive and cooperative communication, smart grid and smart homes.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Fundamentals of digital communicationsChapter 3: Basis of error correction codingChapter 4: Principles of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and single-carrier frequency domain equalisationChapter 5: Modern power line communication technologiesChapter 6: Power line communication channel modelsChapter 7: Noise mitigationChapter 8: Narrowband power line communication systems: PRIME and G3-PLC/IEEE 1901.2 performanceChapter 9: Broadband power line communication systems: IEEE 1901 performanceChapter 10: A guide to prototyping broadband and capacitive power line communication coupling circuits for low-voltage electric power gridsChapter 11: Smart grids and the use of power line communicationsChapter 12: Performance evaluation of PRIME power line communication modems over distribution transformers: a case studyChapter 13: Power line communication for monitoring and control of distributed energy resources in smart gridsChapter 14: Power line communication devices for electric vehicles charging infrastructure: progress, challenges, opportunities and statusChapter 15: Demand side management through power line communication: concepts and challengesChapter 16: Direct torque control for a wind doubly fed induction generator employing power line communication technology in smart grid environmentsChapter 17: The use of non-linear filtering to improve the performance of narrowband power line communication in smart grid applicationsChapter 18: Multiple-input multiple-output systems design for narrowband power line communication in smart distribution gridsChapter 19: Analysis of hybrid communication systems for smart grids