Smart Grid Communication Networks: Emerging Architectures, Technologies, and Cyber-Resilience
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2026 | Viewed by 118
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wireless networks; AI/ML for networks; quantum networks; underwater networks; smart grid networks
Interests: deep learning-based energy forecasting; energy management; data analytics for smart grid; internet of things;smart grid communication; peer-to-peer energy trading
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Dear Colleagues,
Modern power systems are rapidly evolving into intelligent, interconnected, and data-driven smart grids. The increasing deployment of distributed renewable energy resources, energy storage systems, electric vehicles, advanced metering infrastructure, and grid-edge devices has created a strong demand for reliable, low-latency, secure, and interoperable communication networks. These networks are essential for real-time sensing, monitoring, protection, control, and decision making across generation, transmission, distribution, and consumer domains. At the same time, the growing integration of cyber and physical infrastructures has introduced new challenges related to system complexity, data security, privacy, resilience, and operational reliability. These developments make smart grid communication networks a timely and important research area for both academia and industry.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to smart grid communication networks, with a particular focus on emerging architectures, enabling technologies, and cyber-resilience. We welcome original research and review articles addressing the design, analysis, implementation, and evaluation of communication and sensing solutions for next-generation smart grids. Contributions that advance secure, scalable, intelligent, and resilient smart energy systems are especially encouraged.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Smart grid communication architectures and network design;
- Wireless, hybrid, and IoT-enabled communication technologies;
- AI-enabled network optimization, management, and anomaly detection;
- Digital twins for communications, monitoring, and control in smart grids;
- Sensor networks and advanced metering for grid monitoring;
- Edge-, fog-, and cloud-assisted smart grid communications;
- Cybersecurity, privacy, trust, and intrusion detection in smart grids;
- Cyber-resilient, self-healing, and fault-tolerant grid communications;
- Communications for microgrids, virtual power plants, and distributed energy resources;
- Joint sensing, communication, and control for intelligent energy networks;
- Interoperability, protocols, and data fusion for smart energy systems.
Dr. Md Farhad Hossain
Dr. Shama Islam
Prof. Dr. Kumudu Munasinghe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart grid communication networks
- smart grid cybersecurity
- AI-enabled smart grid
- digital twin-enabled smart grid
- self-healing grid communications
- wireless networks
- internet of things (IoT)
- network interoperability
- cloud/fog/edge computing
- advanced metering infrastructure
- distributed energy resources
- virtual power plants
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