Sustainable Networks in Smart Grid

B.D. Deebak is an associate professor in the Department of Computational Intelligence, School of Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. Previously, he was at GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and before that in Middle East Technical University (METU) Northern Cyprus Campus. He has more than 12 years of teaching experience and research in various engineering institutions. His areas of research include multimedia networks, network security, and machine learning. Prof. Dr. Fadi Al-Turjman received his Ph.D. in computer science from Queen’s University, Canada, in 2011. He is the “advisor to the chairman of the board of trustees on AI and informatics” at Near East University (NEU), Turkey, and the founding dean for AI and Informatics faculty in the same university. Prof. Al-Turjman is the head of Software Engineering Department, and the founding director for the AI and Robotics Institute and the International Research Center for AI and IoT at NEU. He has been awarded the lifetime golden-award of Dr. Suat Gunsel from Near East University for the year 2022, in addition to several other recognitions and best research awards at key international venues. Prof. Al-Turjman is a leading authority in the areas of smart/intelligent IoT systems, wireless, and mobile networks’ architectures, protocols, deployments, and performance evaluation in Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). His publication history spans over 650 SCI/E publications, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks at flagship venues. He has authored and edited more than 100 books about AI, cognition, security, and wireless sensor networks’ deployments in smart IoT environments, which have been published by well-reputed publishers such as IEEE, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, IET, and Springer. Prof. Al-Turjman is leading a number of international conferences and workshops in flagship AI and IoT societies. Currently, he serves as a book series editor with distinguished publishers, and the lead guest/associate editor for several top tier journals, including the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IF 23.9) and the Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (IF 10.8).

• 1. Smart Grid communication and information technologies for cyber security, data privacy, and policy issues2. Recent regulatory control changes related to energy storage in Asia: impact on the business cases3. Smart home energy management system: concept, architecture, infrastructure, challenges, and energy management4. Role of power line communications in the Smart Grid: applications, challenges, and research initiatives5. Key performance indicator-based energy management strategies for microgrid operation6. Smart energy optimization using new genetic algorithms in Smart Grids with the integration of renewable energy sources7. Distributed semantic architecture for smart grids: an industrial approach8. Application of artificial intelligence and information and communication technology in the grid agricultural industry: business motivation, analytical tools, and challenges9. Data protection and privacy preservation mechanisms for applications of IoT in smart grids using AI10. An efficient lightweight privacy-preserving scheme for secondary users in cognitive radio networks11. Smart grid metering: security, privacy, and open challenges