The smart grid is the next generation electrical grid, which will enable the smart integration of conventional, renewable and distributed power generation, energy storage, transmission and distribution, and demand management. The benefits of smart grid include enhanced reliability and resilience, higher intelligence and optimized control, decentralized operation, higher operational efficiency, more efficient demand management, and better power quality.
However, the large-scale deployment of smart grid without proper utilization can cause new dimension of threats, particularly in critical infrastructures that are highly dependent on the availability of electricity. Modern telecommunications will play a vital role in the smart grid as many of its operations and applications require vast amount of information to be communicated between entities in real-time for timely monitoring and control. Beyond smart grid, telecommunications are also an important enabler of human-to-human, human-to-machine, and machine-to-machine connectivity in other smart systems such as smart buildings, transportation and healthcare. These connections and interactions between networked entities will make possible the seamless provision of a wide variety of new services that provide a way of life that is secure, convenient, comfortable, and sustainable in future smart cities.

Smart Grid:

1. Resilient and robust control for recovery of smart grid
2. Flexibility and self-healing capability of smart grid
3. Electric vehicle systems for smart grid
4. Smart grid system architecture
5. Smart grid electricity markets
6. Decentralized decision making for smart grid
7. Phishing analytic and system security for smart grid
8. Microgrid and islanding applications and operations
9. Quality-of-Service (QoS), energy-efficiency, and fault tolerance in smart grid systems
10. Resource management of smart grid systems
11. Smart grid infrastructural dependencies
12. Distributed control and efficient optimization methods for smart grid
13. Modelling and simulation of smart grid
14. Data analytics, sensing, processing and communication techniques for smart grid
15. Management techniques for distributed energy generation and storage
16. Energy storage technologies for smart grid
    
    

Telecommunications:

1. Physical and MAC layer protocols, low power link layer technologies (PLC and wireless)
2. Resource management and cross-layer optimization
3. Multi-hop communication and mesh networking
4. Scalable network and system architecture (e.g., FAN, HAN, NAN and BAN)
5. Lightweight IP networking stacks for constrained devices
6. Communication protocols for real-time information collection and control applications
7. Data models and communication-aware data management solutions
8. Coexistence, convergence and interoperability mechanisms
9. Signal processing and coding techniques for energy related sensor information
10. 5G and beyond enabling technologies, innovative applications and services
11. Microwave and millimetre-wave passive and active devices
12. Radio frequency based sensing and energy harvesting
13. Integrated sensing and communications
14. V2X communication for connected autonomous vehicles
15. Optical-wireless integration in backhaul and access networks
16. Radiometric fingerprinting for security of wireless devices
17. Software defined wireless networks
18. Internet of things for smart cities

Conference Proceedings

All registered and presented papers will be submitted for publication in the Springer LNICST series and made available through the SpringerLink Digital Library: SmartGIFT proceedings. This series is indexed in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Inspec, SCImago and Zentralblatt MATH.

Available journals

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal [IF: 2.1 (2024)]

The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:  

• It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
• The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
• The article will be processed using the fast-track option.

Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at [email protected] with the details of their article to begin processing.

Additional publication opportunities

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

EAI is an open community dedicated to creating an environment where every member receives the same opportunities and benefits to develop and grow their research mission and career. As the largest free professional research society in the world, EAI offers a complete range of conference proceedings publication opportunities. Based on the qualification of the conference and the conference scope, EAI provides the possibility to publish the proceedings for every sponsored conference. Consistent with its mission to support developing communities, all EAI sponsored conferences appear in EUDL, the European Union Digital Library (EUDL). EUDL is Open Access and free for EAI members, reaching a community of 250,000 subscribers and providing the visibility that allows the conference organisers to develop the conference into a fully fledged indexed proceedings publication in subsequent years.

Papers should be submitted through EasyChair system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

• Regular papers should be up to 12-20 pages in length.
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period.

• All papers must be submitted in English. 

• Submitted PDFs should be anonymized.

• Single-Blind review process.
• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review. 
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section). 
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
• As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text)

HOW TO WRITE GOOD ALT TEXT

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive in .ZIP file, containing LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.