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Workshop on Communication Networks and Power Systems (WCNPS’24)

Subjects:

  • Big Data and Machine Learning: Large-scale systems for text and graph analysis; artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques; large language models applications; parallel and distributed data processing; and big-data statistical techniques.
  • Communication Theory and Techniques: channel measurements and modeling; MIMO communications; Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RISs); Integrated Sensing and Communications; cell-free communications; multi-linear algebra and tensor signal processing; spatial diversity/multiplexing techniques; coding/modulation techniques; radar signal processing; and antennas and propagation.
  • Data Science: methods for analyzing scientific, business, social, and climate data, among others; time series analysis; data fusion and data mining; spatial-temporal data analysis; biological data analysis; recommendation systems; and applied bioinformatics.
  • DSP Algorithms and Hardware Implementations: DSP implementation in hardware, parallel acceleration techniques, DSP algorithms; sensor array and tracking algorithms; multilinear algebra and tensor signal processing implementations; signal source separation; and signals/systems identification.
  • Fixed Networks and Backhauling: optical networks and switching; network architectures and equipment; Integrated Access and Backhaul; Fixed Wireless Access; Software Defined Networks; testbeds and field trials; new and enhanced services; network gaming; and peer-to-peer networking.
  • Cybersecurity: security primitives; security algorithms, protocols, methods and cyber threat intelligence applied to critical infrastructure and network systems; intrusion detection systems; quantum cryptography and communications; sensor and IoT network security; identity access management solutions; data recovery techniques.
  • Internet: traffic modeling; IoT applications; embedded Internet devices; resource and information management; QoS provisioning; and emerging technologies.
  • Multimedia Signal Processing: streamed multimedia applications; image and video processing; audio and speech processing; error concealment techniques; multimedia service management; and multimedia gaming.
  • Ranging and Localization: indoor positioning technologies and techniques; radio-based positioning systems; ranging and localization algorithms; radar navigation/localization/tracking systems; vehicle/robot navigation; hybrid positioning and communication; and RFID localization/communication.
  • Wireless Networks: 5G/6G systems and technologies; Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks; systems co-existence; wireless sensors, systems, and networks; cognitive radio; cross-layer design; ad-hoc and mesh networks; cooperative networks; wireless privacy and security; and testbeds and new applications.
  • Unconventional Applications of Signal Processing and Communication Theory: Bio-signaling; bioinformatics; medical imaging; financial modeling; forensic applications; semantic communications; compressive electromagnetic sensing; and traffic modeling.
  • Control and Operation of Power Systems: transient voltage collapse, wide-area control systems (WACS), Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS), experience on monitoring phasor measurement units (PMUs) installed at university’s campuses, transient stability monitoring, system security, power system reliability, integration of AC-DC systems and operation, experience on the operation of large scale systems.
  • Electromagnetic Transients: digital simulation of continuous systems, transient converter simulation, transient analysis of control systems (TACS), control modeling in PSCAD/EMTDC and ATP, mixed time-frame simulation, frequency-dependent network equivalents, system identification techniques (prony, vector fitting, Kalman filter, unscented transform, etc.).
  • Renewable Energy Sources: wind energy, solar energy, energy from biomass, photovoltaic systems, experience with the renewable energy sources, and integration of DERs and IBRs on power grids.
  • Power System Modelling and Simulation: optimal power flow, power system stability, FACTS devices, HVDC, VSC, wind farm and controls, islanding detection methods, power system restoration dynamics, uncertainty quantification, power system analysis, numerical linear algebra applied to power system modeling and simulation, experience on tool simulations.
  • Power System Planning: transmission network expansion planning, economic dispatch, environmental cost studies, and their application, advances in simulation and modeling tools & techniques, use of emerging and innovative technologies within the realm of PMUs, FACTS and HVDC, planning and operations with increasing penetration of renewable generation.
  • Power System Protection: conventional and numerical relaying, phasor estimation algorithms, special protection schemes, wide area protection, automation and control (WAMPAC), the impact of instrument transformers on signal distortions, settings optimization, recent advances on fault location methods, high impedance fault detection.
  • Power Quality: harmonic power flow computation, source of harmonics, the impact of harmonics on power quality and losses in power systems, modeling of flicker penetration, solutions to compensate for and reduce harmonics, insertion of the electric car as a new type of load, well-succeeded experiences on power quality.
  • Smart Grids: smarter electricity systems, economic growth, and environmental goals, technologies, and policies that help to attain global energy and climate goals, future demand and supply, electrification of transport, electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, system and cybersecurity, Information and communications technology integration, advanced metering infrastructure, customer-side systems.
  • High Voltage Engineering: partial discharge monitoring, gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) design, high voltage surge arresters, corona discharge mitigation, insulation coordination, high voltage equipment diagnostics, electromagnetic interference (EMI), high voltage grounding, high voltage cable design, transient overvoltages, high voltage testing techniques.
  • Power Systems Economics: electricity market design, demand response, renewable integration costs, energy pricing, transmission congestion, economic dispatch, market power, electricity tariffs, smart grid economics, investment planning, energy storage costs, capacity markets, carbon pricing, market deregulation, distributed generation economics, risk management, grid modernization costs, retail market dynamics, microgrid feasibility, blackout costs.
  • Energy Storage: battery innovations, grid-scale storage, battery management, renewable integration, thermal storage, supercapacitors, storage economics, flywheel storage, hybrid systems, long-duration storage, microgrid storage, storage efficiency, flow batteries, compressed air storage, pumped hydro storage, storage and demand response, lifecycle analysis, storage recycling, EV battery storage, storage and smart grids.

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit a four to six-page paper including figures and references.

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Paper Presentation

The workshop will be held in online mode.

Publication on the IEEE Xplore

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements IEEE Xplore.