EAI SmartGIFT 2026: 10th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications Tempe, Arizona, USA, AZ, United States, November 12-13, 2026

10th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications (EAI SmartGIFT 2026)

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The smart grid is the next generation electrical grid, which will enable the smart integration of conventional, renewable and distributed power generation, energy storage, transmission and distribution, and demand management. The benefits of smart grid include enhanced reliability and resilience, higher intelligence and optimized control, decentralized operation, higher operational efficiency, more efficient demand management, and better power quality.However, the large-scale deployment of smart grid without proper utilization can cause new dimension of threats, particularly in critical infrastructures that are highly dependent on the availability of electricity. Modern telecommunications will play a vital role in the smart grid as many of its operations and applications require vast amount of information to be communicated between entities in real-time for timely monitoring and control. Beyond smart grid, telecommunications are also an important enabler of human-to-human, human-to-machine, and machine-to-machine connectivity in other smart systems such as smart buildings, transportation and healthcare. These connections and interactions between networked entities will make possible the seamless provision of a wide variety of new services that provide a way of life that is secure, convenient, comfortable, and sustainable in future smart cities.

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be submitted through EasyChair system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

• Regular papers should be up to 12-20 pages in length.
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period.

A 50% discount on the second paper is available for participants registering two accepted papers, provided both papers are authored by the same individual who will also be the sole attendee.

How to Submit a Paper in EasyChair:

1. Go to EasyChair website.
2. Log in or sign up as a new user.
3. Select your desired track.
4. Click the “enter as an author” link and follow the instructions.

Submission Guidelines:

• All papers must be submitted in English. 
• Submitted PDFs should be anonymised.
• Single-Blind review process.
• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review. 
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section). 
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
• As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text)

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List of Topics

• Smart Grid:

• Resilient and robust control for recovery of smart grid
• Flexibility and self-healing capability of smart grid
• Electric vehicle systems for smart grid
• Smart grid system architecture
• Smart grid electricity markets
• Decentralized decision making for smart grid
• Phishing analytic and system security for smart grid
• Microgrid and islanding applications and operations
• Quality-of-Service (QoS), energy-efficiency, and fault tolerance in smart grid systems
• Resource management of smart grid systems
• Smart grid infrastructural dependencies
• Distributed control and efficient optimization methods for smart grid
• Modelling and simulation of smart grid
• Data analytics, sensing, processing and communication techniques for smart grid
• Management techniques for distributed energy generation and storage
• Energy storage technologies for smart grid

• Telecommunications:

• Physical and MAC layer protocols, low power link layer technologies (PLC and wireless)
• Resource management and cross-layer optimization
• Multi-hop communication and mesh networking
• Scalable network and system architecture (e.g., FAN, HAN, NAN and BAN)
• Lightweight IP networking stacks for constrained devices
• Communication protocols for real-time information collection and control applications
• Data models and communication-aware data management solutions
• Coexistence, convergence and interoperability mechanisms
• Signal processing and coding techniques for energy related sensor information
• 5G and beyond enabling technologies, innovative applications and services
• Microwave and millimetre-wave passive and active devices
• Radio frequency based sensing and energy harvesting
• Integrated sensing and communications
• V2X communication for connected autonomous vehicles
• Optical-wireless integration in backhaul and access networks
• Radiometric fingerprinting for security of wireless devices
• Software defined wireless networks
• Internet of things for smart cities

Committees

Program Committee

• General Chair

  Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Arizona State University, USA

• Technical Program Chairs

  Aris Leivadeas, Université du Québec, Canada

  Subhash Lakshminarayana, University of Warwick, UK

Organizing committee

• Web Chair

  Aruzhan Sabyrbek, ASU, USA

• Publicity and Social Media Chair

  Dimitrios Manias, Mississippi State University, USA

• Workshops Chair

  Fei Teng, Imperial College London, UK

• Publications Chair

  Dheryta Jaisinghani, University of Northern Iowa, USA

• Tutorials Chair

  Junbo Zhao, Dartmouth College, USA

Publication

Conference Proceedings

All registered and presented papers will be submitted for publication in the Springer LNICST series and made available through the SpringerLink Digital Library: SmartGIFT proceedings. This series is indexed in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Inspec, SCImago and Zentralblatt MATH.

Available journals

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal [IF: 2.1 (2024)]

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications (Open Access) (No APC apply)
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web (Scopus, Compendex)

Authors have the opportunity to publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus, Ei-indexed, ESCI-WoS, Compendex) by paying an additional $250, discounted from the standard $400 rate for conference authors.

The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:  

• It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
• The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
• The article will be processed using the fast-track option.

Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at publications@eai.eu with the details of their article to begin processing.

Additional publication opportunities

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series(titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

EAI is an open community dedicated to creating an environment where every member receives the same opportunities and benefits to develop and grow their research mission and career. As the largest free professional research society in the world, EAI offers a complete range of conference proceedings publication opportunities. Based on the qualification of the conference and the conference scope, EAI provides the possibility to publish the proceedings for every sponsored conference. Consistent with its mission to support developing communities, all EAI sponsored conferences appear in EUDL, the European Union Digital Library (EUDL). EUDL is Open Access and free for EAI members, reaching a community of 250,000 subscribers and providing the visibility that allows the conference organisers to develop the conference into a fully fledged indexed proceedings publication in subsequent years.

Contact

Conference contact: conferences@eai.eu

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