Starred Review. By truck, it would have taken a day or two, but the government army and the
Russians were holding the roads. So instead it was a three-week march with pack animals …

Over the past years, the demand for electricity has faced a drastic growth, as the number and
heterogeneity of electrical devices is continuously increasing. In parallel, the power sector is …

The emergence of microgeneration systems steadily increases, and it raises concerns
regarding their impact on the power grid. It is, therefore, crucial to efficiently integrate them …

Multiple heterogeneous communication technologies offer great opportunities in Smart grid
network by using wire, wireless and optic fiber. Most of future smart meters will use …

The Smart Grid is based on Advanced Metering Infrastructure that mostly relies on Narrow
Band Power Line Communication (PLC). In such network, using a single communication …

Several countries have deployed, or have started the deployment of a smart metering
infrastructure in order to enable the Smart Grid. This infrastructure aims to provide new …

The amount of data transferred in a smart grid system, and its reliability impose to add new
communication technologies to the power line communication network using the electricity …

Simulation-oriented research requires precise and validated simulators. Each community
has its set of preferred and widely adopted software tools. Some works are multi-domain and …

One of the main target of smart grids consists in deploying efficient demand-side
management strategies. Several communication technologies are used to transfer …

Background Major and minor tranquillisers can be used to chemically restrain a patient. Use
of chemical restraint (CR) has been described mainly in long care settings but there is very …