The role of power line communications in the smart grid revisited: applications, challenges, and research initiatives

G. López, J. Matanza, D. Vega, M. Castro, A. Arrinda, J.I. Moreno, A. Sendín

IEEE Access Vol. 7, pp. 117346 - 117368

Summary:
Power Line Communications (PLC) have been an active research area for many years and it is still the case, mainly because they present economic and technical natural advantages for a wide range of applications using the existing electrical grid as transmission medium. In this paper, the authors provide an update on PLC technologies and their applications in Smart Grids, the main challenges they are currently facing, how they can be addressed, and the current research initiatives.

Keywords: Communications Networks, Communications Technologies, Power Line Communications, Smart Grids

JCR Impact Factor and WoS quartile: 3,745 - Q1 (2019); 3,900 - Q2 (2022)

DOI reference: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2928391

Published on paper: 2019.

Published on-line: July 2019.

Citation:
G. López, J. Matanza, D. Vega, M. Castro, A. Arrinda, J.I. Moreno, A. Sendín, The role of power line communications in the smart grid revisited: applications, challenges, and research initiatives. IEEE Access. Vol. 7, pp. 117346 - 117368, 2019. [Online: July 2019]