EEE 5924 Smart Grid Communications Summer 2015 (Tentative)

Catalog Data
Smart grid communications covers several special topics in the field of smart grid including communication
architectures and models for smart grid, physical data communications, wide-area networks, sensors
networks, and field trials and deployments, etc.
Textbook and Other Required Materials
Course textbook: Ekran Hossain, Zhu Han & H. Vincent Poor: Smart Grid Communications and
Networking, Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-107-01413-8
Contents from journal/conference articles (Such as IEEE, EURASIP, etc.) will also be used

Professor
Dr. Nabih Jaber, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office Hours: Please see BB for office hours
Prerequisite(s)

Completion of all Electrical Engineering courses from 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year and some of 4th
year courses. If you have questions and concerns about whether you meet the prerequisite criteria,
please contact the instructor.

COURSE CONTENT: Note that the following topics may not be introduced in the same order as shown below
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Communication Networks in Smart Grid: An Architectural View

New Models for Networked Control in Smart Grid
Demand-Side Management for Smart Grid: Opportunities and
Challenges
Vehicle-to-Grid Systems: Ancillary Services and Communications
Communications and Access Technologies for Smart Grid (except
section 5.5)**
Machine-to-Machine Communications in Smart Grid
Bad-Data Detection in Smart Grid: a Distribution Approach

Chapter 1*
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Professor
Tahmina Gouhar
Venkatesh Jaligama

Chapter 4
Chapter 5

Distributed State Estimation: A Learning-Based Framework

Networking Technologies for Wide-Area Measurement Applications
Wireless Networks for Smart Grid Applications
Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Grid: Research Challenges and
Potential Applications
Sensor Techniques and Network Protocols for Smart Grid
Potential Methods for Sensor and Actuator Networks for Smart Grid
Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Wireless Sensor
Networks for Smart Grid
Cyber-attack impact analysis of smart grid
Jamming for manipulating the power market in smart grid
Power-system state-estimation security: attacks and protection schemes
A hierarchical security architecture for smart grid
Application-driven design for a secured smart grid
Case Studies and Lessons Learned from Recent Smart Grid Field
Trials

Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10*
Chapter 11

G. Sai Prithvi
Hemanth Yeramada &
Ayyappa Vajrala
Rajashakhar Kolla
Sathyamani Yalameri
(Deepak)
Venkata Dodla
Bharath Nimna
Professor
Sangeetha Maiya

Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14

Prabhu Muvvala
Irfan Syed
Gummadi Vidya

Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20

Poosa Sai Krishna

Uday Dasari
Sreeram Sundeep
Gopi Alaparthi
Arun Kunapureddy
Venkatram Butreddy

Chapter 6
Chapter 7

*The professor will introduce these chapters in class. The rest will be presented by students as part of their final project II
requirement. Please see project section found in this syllabus for a more detail explanation

At the completion of this course, the student should understand:

Communication architectures and models for smart grid

Physical data communications in smart grid

Wide-area networks for smart grid

Wireless networks for smart grid applications

Sensors networks for smart grid

Field trials and deployments in smart grid

Evaluation Scheme
Attendance/Participation:
Midterm Project/Research I:
Final Project/Research II:

Date
All lectures
See agenda provided separately
See agenda provided separately

Value
20%
40%
40%

Projects/Research I&II:
Project/Research I: Students with team of two members will present a professional research-based
presentation in class. The topics can be chosen by the students themselves. A random draw will be
done in class to allocate which teams present which days.
Project/Research II: A random draw was done in class to allocate the different chapters for the
individual student (please see table on page 1). For this project, the student will present a professional
research-based presentation in class about that chapter. NOTE that the students must show that a
reasonable amount of effort was placed on the research topics. For example, the students have to read
other papers and resources and reference them in their presentations. Marks will be provided
based on the quality of research effort. The students names and allocated chapters can be seen in the
table found in page 1.
In terms of marking: students will have a chance to evaluate their peers. The weight that the students
evaluation will carry is 40% for project 1 and 20% for project 2, and the rest will be the instructors
grading (60% projects 1 and 80% project 2). The instructor reserves the right and might change the %
weight layout shown here (as he sees fit). A more detailed information will be provided and discussed
in class. Evaluation forms will be provided in class during the presentations. Most likely we will be
using Google Forms to do the evaluations on, so please bring in your laptops during those
presentations.

The table below contains the numerical to letter grade conversion. Prior to assigning letter grades, the
instructor may multiply all numeric grades by a constant.
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
D90%80%77%74%70%67%64%60%57%54%- 50%94.99% 89.99% 79.99% 76.99% 73.99% 69.99% 66.99% 63.99% 59.99% 56.99 53.99%
Revision History
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Original
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Release Date
January 02, 2013
January 05, 2014
January 05, 2015
May 15, 2015

Prepared by
Nabih Jaber
Nabih Jaber
Nabih Jaber
Nabih Jaber

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