Smart Grid using Big Data Analytics

This book is aimed at students in communications and signal processing who want to extend their skills in the energy area. It describes power systems and why these backgrounds are so useful to smart grid, wireless communications being very different to traditional wireline communications.

Robert Caiming Qiu, Professor, Dept. of  ECE, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA. Professor Qiu was Founder-CEO and President of Wiscom Technologies, Inc., manufacturing and marketing WCDMA chipsets. Wiscom was acquired by Intel in 2003. Prior to Wiscom, he worked for GTE Labs, Inc. (now Verizon), Waltham, MA, and Bell Labs, Lucent, Whippany, NJ. He holds 5 U.S. patents (another two pending) in WCDMA. Professor Qiu has contributed to 3GPP and IEEE standards bodies, and delivered invited seminars to institutions including Princeton University and the U.S. Army Research Lab. Dr. Qiu was made an IEEE Fellow in 2014.

Dr. Paul Antonik, Chief Scientist, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, N.Y., USA. Dr. Antonik serves as the directorate's principal scientific and technical adviser and primary authority for the technical content of the science and technology portfolio, providing principal technical oversight of a broad spectrum of information technologies.