Smart Grid

This book delivers a comprehensive overview of smart grid communications, discussing the latest advances in the technology, the related cyber security issues, and the best ways to manage user demand and pricing. Comprised of 16 chapters authored by world-renowned experts, this book considers the use of cognitive radio and software-defined networking in the smart grid, explores the management issues that arise around smart cities, and presents cutting-edge research on microgrids, electric vehicles, and energy trading in the smart grid, among other topics.