Maddikara Jaya Bharata Reddy is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, India. He is a senior member of IEEE with 20 years of experience in teaching and research in the areas of digital relaying, power system protection, substation automation, wide-area monitoring and protection, and smart grid technologies. In 2010, he received the national-level IEI Young Engineer's Award and has published more than 110 journal and conference papers. He also served as a board member of several related journals.Dusmanta Kumar Mohanta is a former professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of the Birla Institute of Technology, India. He is an IEEE senior member with more than 30 years in teaching and industry. He was an Electrical Engineer in the captive power plant of the National Aluminium Company (NALCO), Angul, India. He has been involved as a consultant for different industry problems and for testing different electrical equipment. His current research interests include power quality analysis, digital relaying, soft computing applications, smart grid, power system planning, and reliability analysis. He also served as a board member of several related journals.

• Chapter 1: Synchrophasors for improving the performance of power gridChapter 2: An optimal reliability criterion (ORC) index for optimal placement of phasor measurement units (PMU) for full observability of power gridChapter 3: Secured relaying using synchronised dataChapter 4: Synchrophasor-assisted visualization and protection of power systemsChapter 5: Using PMU measurements for enhanced power grid monitoring and protectionChapter 6: Micro-phasor measurement unit-based energy management systemChapter 7: A resilient framework to facilitate seamless ancillary power support in a microgrid clusterChapter 8: PMU-based vulnerability assessment of power systemsChapter 9: Synchrophasor applications for load and generator parameter estimationChapter 10: State estimation in the presence of synchronized measurementChapter 11: PMU-based wide-area security assessmentChapter 12: Cyber-physical attack detection approaches in the wide-area measurement system