TY - JOUR
T1 - Relaying technologies for smart grid communications
AU - Sun, Hongjian
AU - Nallanathan, Arumugam
AU - Tan, Bo
AU - Thompson, John
AU - Jiang, Jing
AU - Poor, H. Vincent
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT H. Sun and A. Nallanathan acknowledge the support of the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) with Grant No.
Funding Information:
EP/I000054/1. B. Tan, J. Jiang, and J. S. Thompson acknowledge support from the Scottish Funding Council for the Joint Research Institute in Signal and Image Processing between the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, as part of the Edinburgh Research Partnership in Engineering and Mathematics (ERPem). H. V. Poor acknowledges the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants CNS-09-05086, CNS-09-05398, and CCF-10-16671.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Wireless technologies can support a broad range of smart grid applications including advanced metering infrastructure and demand response. However, there are many formidable challenges when wireless technologies are applied to the smart gird, such as the trade-offs between wireless coverage and capacity, the high reliability requirement for communication, and limited spectral resources. Relaying has emerged as one of the most promising candidate solutions for addressing these issues. In this article, an introduction to various relaying strategies is presented, together with a discussion of how to improve spectral efficiency and coverage in relay-based information and communications technology infrastructure for smart grid applications. Special attention is paid to the use of unidirectional relaying, collaborative beamforming, and bidirectional relaying strategies.
AB - Wireless technologies can support a broad range of smart grid applications including advanced metering infrastructure and demand response. However, there are many formidable challenges when wireless technologies are applied to the smart gird, such as the trade-offs between wireless coverage and capacity, the high reliability requirement for communication, and limited spectral resources. Relaying has emerged as one of the most promising candidate solutions for addressing these issues. In this article, an introduction to various relaying strategies is presented, together with a discussion of how to improve spectral efficiency and coverage in relay-based information and communications technology infrastructure for smart grid applications. Special attention is paid to the use of unidirectional relaying, collaborative beamforming, and bidirectional relaying strategies.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2012.6393518
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2012.6393518
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84872009452
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 19
SP - 52
EP - 59
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 6
M1 - 6393518
ER -