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Smart grid communications covers several special topics in the field of smart grid including communication
architectures and models for smart grid, physical data communications, wide-area networks, sensors
networks, and field trials and deployments, etc.
Textbook and Other Required Materials
Course textbook: Ekran Hossain, Zhu Han & H. Vincent Poor: Smart Grid Communications and
Networking, Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-107-01413-8
Contents from journal/conference articles (Such as IEEE, EURASIP, etc.) will also be used
Professor
Dr. Nabih Jaber, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office Hours: Please see BB for office hours
Prerequisite(s)
Completion of all Electrical Engineering courses from 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year and some of 4th
year courses. If you have questions and concerns about whether you meet the prerequisite criteria,
please contact the instructor.
COURSE CONTENT: Note that the following topics may not be introduced in the same order as shown below
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Chapter 1*
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Professor
Tahmina Gouhar
Venkatesh Jaligama
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10*
Chapter 11
G. Sai Prithvi
Hemanth Yeramada &
Ayyappa Vajrala
Rajashakhar Kolla
Sathyamani Yalameri
(Deepak)
Venkata Dodla
Bharath Nimna
Professor
Sangeetha Maiya
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Prabhu Muvvala
Irfan Syed
Gummadi Vidya
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
*The professor will introduce these chapters in class. The rest will be presented by students as part of their final project II
requirement. Please see project section found in this syllabus for a more detail explanation
Evaluation Scheme
Attendance/Participation:
Midterm Project/Research I:
Final Project/Research II:
Date
All lectures
See agenda provided separately
See agenda provided separately
Value
20%
40%
40%
Projects/Research I&II:
Project/Research I: Students with team of two members will present a professional research-based
presentation in class. The topics can be chosen by the students themselves. A random draw will be
done in class to allocate which teams present which days.
Project/Research II: A random draw was done in class to allocate the different chapters for the
individual student (please see table on page 1). For this project, the student will present a professional
research-based presentation in class about that chapter. NOTE that the students must show that a
reasonable amount of effort was placed on the research topics. For example, the students have to read
other papers and resources and reference them in their presentations. Marks will be provided
based on the quality of research effort. The students names and allocated chapters can be seen in the
table found in page 1.
In terms of marking: students will have a chance to evaluate their peers. The weight that the students
evaluation will carry is 40% for project 1 and 20% for project 2, and the rest will be the instructors
grading (60% projects 1 and 80% project 2). The instructor reserves the right and might change the %
weight layout shown here (as he sees fit). A more detailed information will be provided and discussed
in class. Evaluation forms will be provided in class during the presentations. Most likely we will be
using Google Forms to do the evaluations on, so please bring in your laptops during those
presentations.
The table below contains the numerical to letter grade conversion. Prior to assigning letter grades, the
instructor may multiply all numeric grades by a constant.
A
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B
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C
CD+
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D90%80%77%74%70%67%64%60%57%54%- 50%94.99% 89.99% 79.99% 76.99% 73.99% 69.99% 66.99% 63.99% 59.99% 56.99 53.99%
Revision History
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Release Date
January 02, 2013
January 05, 2014
January 05, 2015
May 15, 2015
Prepared by
Nabih Jaber
Nabih Jaber
Nabih Jaber
Nabih Jaber
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