Power Line Communication Systems for Smart Grids

Power Line Communication Systems for Smart Grids presents the fundamentals and principles behind narrowband and broadband PLC technologies, covering the particularities of coupling PLC signals to the electrical grid and the main modulation and coding techniques used, to their standardisation and use in monitoring and control operations involved in energy management, charging of electric vehicles and distributed generation, taking into account the use of intermittent renewable energy sources.

This second edition offers substantial updates and new content. Chapters cover fundamentals of digital communications and error correction coding, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and frequency domain equalization, channel models, noise mitigation, main narrowband and broadband PLC standards, PLC signals coupling to power grid, analysis of PLC modems over distribution transformers, use of PLC for monitoring and control of distributed generation, PLC in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, application of PLC in demand side management, power control for wind turbines based on PLC technology, non-linear filtering and multiple-input, multiple-output systems for narrowband PLC systems and hybrid communication systems analysis.

Researchers in electrical engineering involved with smart grids and PLC, engineers and practitioners working with power systems, as well as senior undergraduates, will find this expanded and updated new edition to be a valuable source of information on power line communication systems.

Ivan Roberto Santana Casella (S'01-M'04-SM'19) is a full professor at the Center for Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences (CECS) of the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil, and founder and director of the Information and Communication Laboratories (LIC I and LIC II). He holds a master's degree and doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), with a doctoral internship at the Wireless Communication Laboratory at the department of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) of the University of Toronto (UofT). He is a senior member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), associate editor of the Electronics Letters of the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) and author of several articles in telecommunications and smart grid areas, which have resulted in some academic and scientific awards. He is also the author of several book chapters and books including Power Line Communication Systems for Smart Grids (2019) with IET and Smart Grids Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, Signal Processing and Communication Systems Applications (2024) with Springer. His main areas of interest are wireless communications, power line communications, smart grids, planar antennas design and energy harvesting.

Alagan Anpalagan (S'98-M'01-SM'04) is a full professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (ECBE) of the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada, and director of the Wireless Networks and Communications Research (WINCORE) Laboratory. He received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto (UofT). Alagan served as editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Communications Letters and co-edited the Handbook on Green Information and Communication Systems, Academic Press (2012), Routing in Opportunistic Networks, Springer (2013), Design and Deployment of Small Cell Networks, Cambridge University Press (2015). His main areas of research are radio resource management, green communication, energy harvesting, small cell and heterogeneous networks, cognitive and cooperative communication, smart grid and smart homes.