Telemedicine via Satellite: Improving Access to Healthcare for Remote Rural Communities in Africa (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bisu, A. A., Gallant, A., Sun, H., Brigham, K., & Purvis, A. (2018). Telemedicine via Satellite: Improving Access to Healthcare for Remote Rural Communities in Africa. In 2018 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/r10-htc.2018.8629855

In this paper, realistic telemedicine implementation scenarios with architecture are proposed to help in extending quality healthcare using satellite and integrated satellite-terrestrial networks (ISTNs). Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications... Read More about Telemedicine via Satellite: Improving Access to Healthcare for Remote Rural Communities in Africa.

User-Centric Multiobjective Approach to Privacy Preservation and Energy Cost Minimization in Smart Home (2018)
Journal Article
Chang, H., Chiu, W., Sun, H., & Chen, C. (2019). User-Centric Multiobjective Approach to Privacy Preservation and Energy Cost Minimization in Smart Home. IEEE Systems Journal, 13(1), 1030-1041. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsyst.2018.2876345

This paper investigates smart home energy management in consideration of tradeoffs between residential privacy and energy costs. A multiobjective approach that minimizes energy costs and maximizes privacy protection is proposed. The approach leads to... Read More about User-Centric Multiobjective Approach to Privacy Preservation and Energy Cost Minimization in Smart Home.

ADMM-based Distributed OPF Problem Meets Stochastic Communication Delay (2018)
Journal Article
Xu, J., Sun, H., & Dent, C. (2019). ADMM-based Distributed OPF Problem Meets Stochastic Communication Delay. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 10(5), 5046-5056. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2018.2873650

An increasing number of distributed generators (DGs) will penetrate into the distribution power system in future smart grid, thus a centralized control strategy cannot effectively optimize the power loss problem in real-time. This paper examines the... Read More about ADMM-based Distributed OPF Problem Meets Stochastic Communication Delay.

Industrial Multi-Energy and Production Management Scheme in Cyber-Physical Environments: A Case Study in a Battery Manufacturing Plant (2018)
Journal Article
Pei, W., Ma, X., Deng, W., Chen, X., Sun, H., & Li, D. (2019). Industrial Multi-Energy and Production Management Scheme in Cyber-Physical Environments: A Case Study in a Battery Manufacturing Plant. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 4(1), 13-21. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cps.2018.5029

Among the various electricity consumer sectors, the consumption level of the industrial sector is often considered as the largest portion of electricity consumption, highlighting the urgent need to implement demand response (DR) energy management. Ho... Read More about Industrial Multi-Energy and Production Management Scheme in Cyber-Physical Environments: A Case Study in a Battery Manufacturing Plant.

Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Hua, W., Li, D., Sun, H., Matthews, P., & Meng, F. (2018). Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets. In 2nd International Conference on Power and Renewable Energy (ICPRE 2017) : Chengdu, China, September 20-23, 2017 ; proceedings (654-658)

In order to alleviate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, the environmental and economic dispatch (EED) is formulated as multiobjective problem (MOP) solved by multiobjective immune algorithm (MOIA). Building on this model, the virtual power pla... Read More about Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets.

Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets (2018)
Journal Article
Hua, W., Li, D., Sun, H., Matthews, P., & Meng, F. (2018). Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets. International journal of smart grid and clean energy, 7(4), 231-239. https://doi.org/10.12720/sgce.7.4.231-239

In order to alleviate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, the environmental and economic dispatch (EED) is formulated as multiobjective optimization problem (MOP) solved by multiobjective immune algorithm (MOIA). Building on this model, the virt... Read More about Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets.

Reliability Modeling Considerations for Emerging Cyber–Physical Power Systems (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Aravinthan, V., Balachandran, T., Ben-Idris, M., Fei, W., Heidari-Kapourchali, M., Hettiarachchige-Don, A., …Tindemans, S. (2018). Reliability Modeling Considerations for Emerging Cyber–Physical Power Systems. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) : Boise, Idaho, USA, 24-28 June 2018 (324-330). https://doi.org/10.1109/pmaps.2018.8440331

Power system operation considering an increasingly complex cyber infrastructure may be one of the key factors of the next generation power systems. The effective operation of a power system in a massively deployed cyber network environment will be af... Read More about Reliability Modeling Considerations for Emerging Cyber–Physical Power Systems.

Energy Hub Scheduling Method with Voltage Stability Considerations (2018)
Conference Proceeding
You, M. Y., Hua, W., Shahbazi, M., & Sun, H. (2018). Energy Hub Scheduling Method with Voltage Stability Considerations. In 2018 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC Workshops), 6-18 August 2018, Beijing, China (196-200). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccchinaw.2018.8674468

Energy Hub is expected to be one of the most effective methods to address the integrated system with multiple energy carriers. In this work, an Energy Hub scheduling method is proposed, which could not only meet various energy load demands but also a... Read More about Energy Hub Scheduling Method with Voltage Stability Considerations.

A Framework for End-to-End Latency Measurements in a Satellite Network Environment (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bisu, A., Purvis, A., Brigham, K., & Sun, H. (2018). A Framework for End-to-End Latency Measurements in a Satellite Network Environment. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) : proceedings : Kansas City, MO, USA, 20 -24 May 2018 (5130-5135). https://doi.org/10.1109/icc.2018.8422913

In this work, a precise method for measuring end-to-end (E2E) latency in satellite Internet Protocol (IP) networks is proposed. Latency (i.e., time delay) is considered a key parameter that affects the quality of service (QoS) and the performance of... Read More about A Framework for End-to-End Latency Measurements in a Satellite Network Environment.

Managing Distributed Generation in a Microgrid with Privacy Preservation (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Touya, E., & Sun, H. (in press). Managing Distributed Generation in a Microgrid with Privacy Preservation.

Performance Analysis of Behavior-based Solutions in Vehicular Networks (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Alnasser, A., & Sun, H. (2018). Performance Analysis of Behavior-based Solutions in Vehicular Networks. In IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) : Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 15-19 April 2018 (736-741). https://doi.org/10.1109/infcomw.2018.8406818

Transportation systems require communication network for achieving safe traffic and efficient transportation. As a result, vehicles become exposed to either internal or external attacks. Various behavior-based methods were proposed to protect vehicul... Read More about Performance Analysis of Behavior-based Solutions in Vehicular Networks.

On Statistical Power Grid Observability under Communication Constraints (2018)
Journal Article
You, M., Jiang, J., Tonello, A. M., Doukoglou, T., & Sun, H. (2018). On Statistical Power Grid Observability under Communication Constraints. IET Smart Grid, 1(2), 40-47. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-stg.2018.0009

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) have enabled real-time power grid monitoring and control applications realizing an integrated power grid and communication system. The communication network formed by PMUs has strict latency requirements. If PMU measur... Read More about On Statistical Power Grid Observability under Communication Constraints.

A Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid Testbed Based on Software Defined Radio and Real Time Digital Simulator (2018)
Conference Proceeding
You, M., Liu, Q., & Sun, H. (2018). A Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid Testbed Based on Software Defined Radio and Real Time Digital Simulator. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccw.2018.8403790

With the development of Smart Grid, there is an increasing need for the inter discipline research, analysis and evaluation, especially in the joint research area of communication system and power system. In this paper, we propose a Cognitive Radio en... Read More about A Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid Testbed Based on Software Defined Radio and Real Time Digital Simulator.

Demand-Response Round-Trip Latency of IoT Smart Grid Network Topologies (2018)
Journal Article
Heron, J. W., Jiang, J., Sun, H., Gezerlis, V., & Doukoglou, T. (2018). Demand-Response Round-Trip Latency of IoT Smart Grid Network Topologies. IEEE Access, 6, 22930-22937. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2831254

Smart grids are the next generation of power distribution network, using information and communications technologies to increase overall energy efficiency and service quality of the power grid. One big challenge in building a smart grid is the fast g... Read More about Demand-Response Round-Trip Latency of IoT Smart Grid Network Topologies.

Enhancing Dynamic Voltage Stability in Power Systems with Distributed Generations (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q., Sun, H., & Matthews, P. (2018). Enhancing Dynamic Voltage Stability in Power Systems with Distributed Generations. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) : 23-26 October 2017, Dresden, Germany ; proceedings (218-222). https://doi.org/10.1109/smartgridcomm.2017.8340716

Voltage stability is critical in the power distribution network. This paper aims to study the dynamic voltage stability problem. When wind generators reach maximum reactive power output, the bus voltage will operate near its steady-state stability li... Read More about Enhancing Dynamic Voltage Stability in Power Systems with Distributed Generations.

Power Grid Observability Redundancy Analysis under Communication Constraints (2018)
Conference Proceeding
You, M., Liu, Q., Jiang, J., & Sun, H. (2018). Power Grid Observability Redundancy Analysis under Communication Constraints. In 2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) : 22-24 Oct. 2017, Qingdao, China ; proceedings (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccchina.2017.8330320

The Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) have largely empowered the current and future smart grid applications, which play important roles in both power systems and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems within smart grid. They can provide... Read More about Power Grid Observability Redundancy Analysis under Communication Constraints.

Improving handover of 5G networks by network function virtualization and fog computing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Qiu, Y., Zhang, H., Long, K., Sun, H., Li, X., & Leung, V. (2018). Improving handover of 5G networks by network function virtualization and fog computing. In 2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) : 22-24 Oct. 2017, Qingdao, China ; proceedings (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccchina.2017.8330444

In Fifth Generation (5G) cellular networks, it is necessary to meet a number of requirements, such as high scalability, ultra-low latency, reduced energy consumption, and high energy efficiency. Particularly in the high mobility scenario, the optimiz... Read More about Improving handover of 5G networks by network function virtualization and fog computing.

Double Threshold Spectrum Sensing Methods in Spectrum-Scarce Vehicular Communications (2018)
Journal Article
Hill, E., & Sun, H. (2018). Double Threshold Spectrum Sensing Methods in Spectrum-Scarce Vehicular Communications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(9), 4072-4080. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2018.2816580

Spectrum scarcity is a growing problem that will affect vehicular communications. Cognitive radio is an effective solution, but requires a robust sensing mechanism that comes with a large overhead; this additional sensing data could be detrimental to... Read More about Double Threshold Spectrum Sensing Methods in Spectrum-Scarce Vehicular Communications.