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Internet of Things-aided Smart Grid: Technologies, Architectures, Applications, Prototypes, and Future Research Directions
Traditional power grids are being transformed into Smart Grids (SGs) to
address the issues in existing power system due to uni-directional information
flow, energy wastage, growing energy demand, reliability and security. SGs
offer bi-directional energy flow between service providers and consumers,
involving power generation, transmission, distribution and utilization systems.
SGs employ various devices for the monitoring, analysis and control of the
grid, deployed at power plants, distribution centers and in consumers' premises
in a very large number. Hence, an SG requires connectivity, automation and the
tracking of such devices. This is achieved with the help of Internet of Things
(IoT). IoT helps SG systems to support various network functions throughout the
generation, transmission, distribution and consumption of energy by
incorporating IoT devices (such as sensors, actuators and smart meters), as
well as by providing the connectivity, automation and tracking for such
devices. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey on IoT-aided SG
systems, which includes the existing architectures, applications and prototypes
of IoT-aided SG systems. This survey also highlights the open issues,
challenges and future research directions for IoT-aided SG systems
A Novel Framework for Software Defined Wireless Body Area Network
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has gained huge popularity in replacing
traditional network by offering flexible and dynamic network management. It has
drawn significant attention of the researchers from both academia and
industries. Particularly, incorporating SDN in Wireless Body Area Network
(WBAN) applications indicates promising benefits in terms of dealing with
challenges like traffic management, authentication, energy efficiency etc.
while enhancing administrative control. This paper presents a novel framework
for Software Defined WBAN (SDWBAN), which brings the concept of SDN technology
into WBAN applications. By decoupling the control plane from data plane and
having more programmatic control would assist to overcome the current lacking
and challenges of WBAN. Therefore, we provide a conceptual framework for SDWBAN
with packet flow model and a future direction of research pertaining to SDWBAN.Comment: Presented on 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems,
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