Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications: Third International Conference, SmartGIFT 2018, Auckland, New Zealand, April 23-24, 2018, Proceedings

The proceedings contain 28 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications. The topics include: E-Mobility: Smart grid and charging session of electric vehicles; Optimizing sliding performance in iOS; a dialog robot based on WeChat; NO-V2X: Non-orthogonal multiple access with side information for V2X communications; connecting Makaraka - A case study to provide connectivity in the rural area of New Zealand; a new energy efficient big data dissemination approach using the opportunistic D2D communications; prediction of electricity consumption for residential houses in New Zealand; physical-layer network coding with high-order modulations; non-orthogonal multiple access for similar channel conditions; a smartphone-assisted device-to-device communication for post-disaster recovery; ioT based experimental study to modify water consumption behavior of domestic users; a sustainable marriage of telcos and transp in the era of big data: Are we ready?; Review of cost optimization of electricity supply by using HOMER and a case study for a big commercial customer in Brazilian Amazon area; efficient fault identification protocol for dynamic topology networks using network coding; performance evaluation of handover protocols in software defined networking environment; dynamic Spectrum management in 5G: Lessons from technological breakthroughs in unlicensed bands use; dual sensing scheduling algorithm for wireless sensor network based road segment surveillance; a clique based asymmetric rendezvous scheme for cognitive radio ad-hoc networks; the blockchain marketplace as the fifth type of electricity market; heuristics-based detection of abnormal energy consumption; Real-Time CPU Scheduling approach for mobile edge computing system.