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Telemedicine via Satellite: Improving Access to Healthcare for Remote Rural Communities in Africa (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bisu, A. A., Gallant, A., Sun, H., Brigham, K., & Purvis, A. (2018, December). Telemedicine via Satellite: Improving Access to Healthcare for Remote Rural Communities in Africa. Presented at IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2018 (HTC’18), Colombo, Sri Lanka

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.-H., Chiu, W.-Y., Sun, H., & Chen, C.-M. (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.

Low Probability of Intercept-Based Optimal OFDM Waveform Design Strategy for an Integrated Radar and Communications System (2018)
Journal Article
Shi, C., Wang, F., Salous, S., & Zhou, J. (2018). Low Probability of Intercept-Based Optimal OFDM Waveform Design Strategy for an Integrated Radar and Communications System. IEEE Access, 6, 57689-57699. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2874007

The integration of radar and communications systems can provide great advantages, such as enhanced efficiency, structure simplification, less occupied hardware resources, and interference mitigation, compared with traditional individual radar and com... Read More about Low Probability of Intercept-Based Optimal OFDM Waveform Design Strategy for an Integrated Radar and Communications System.

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.

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.

Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hua, W., Li, D., Sun, H., Matthews, P., & Meng, F. (2017, September). Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Power and Renewable Energy, Chengdu, China

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.

SWIPT massive MIMO systems with active eavesdropping (2018)
Journal Article
Alageli, M., Ikhlef, A., & Chambers, J. (2019). SWIPT massive MIMO systems with active eavesdropping. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 37(1), 233-247. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2018.2872370

We consider the optimization of the downlink transmission for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in multi-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The system comprises a two-antenna active energy harvester (EH) w... Read More about SWIPT massive MIMO systems with active eavesdropping.

Joint transmitter selection and resource management strategy based on low probability of intercept optimization for distributed radar networks (2018)
Journal Article
Shi, C., Wang, F., Salous, S., & Zhou, J. (2018). Joint transmitter selection and resource management strategy based on low probability of intercept optimization for distributed radar networks. Radio Science, 53(9), 1108-1134. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018rs006584

In this paper, a joint transmitter selection and resource management (JTSRM) strategy based on low probability of intercept (LPI) is proposed for target tracking in distributed radar network system. The basis of the JTSRM strategy is to utilize the o... Read More about Joint transmitter selection and resource management strategy based on low probability of intercept optimization for distributed radar networks.

Reliability Modeling Considerations for Emerging Cyber–Physical Power Systems (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aravinthan, V., Balachandran, T., Ben-Idris, M., Fei, W., Heidari-Kapourchali, M., Hettiarachchige-Don, A., Jiang, J. N., Lei, H., Liu, C.-C., Mitra, J., Ni, M., Papic, M., Parvania, M., Sephary, M., Singh, C., Srivastava, A., Stefanov, A., Sun, H., & Tindemans, S. (2018, June). Reliability Modeling Considerations for Emerging Cyber–Physical Power Systems. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Boise, Idaho, USA

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.

Exploiting High Rate Differential Algebraic STBC in Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems (2018)
Journal Article
Alsifiany, F., Ikhlef, A., & Chambers, J. (2018). Exploiting High Rate Differential Algebraic STBC in Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems. IET Communications, 12(17), 2188-2197. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2018.5208

This paper considers a multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) space-time block coded system that operates at a high data rate with full diversity. In particular, they propose to use a full rate downlink algebraic transmission scheme combined... Read More about Exploiting High Rate Differential Algebraic STBC in Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems.

Energy Hub Scheduling Method with Voltage Stability Considerations (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
You, M. Y., Hua, W., Shahbazi, M., & Sun, H. (2018, August). Energy Hub Scheduling Method with Voltage Stability Considerations. Presented at The seventh IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2018)., Beijing, China

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bisu, A., Purvis, A., Brigham, K., & Sun, H. (2018, May). A Framework for End-to-End Latency Measurements in a Satellite Network Environment. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA

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.

Performance Analysis of Behavior-based Solutions in Vehicular Networks (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alnasser, A., & Sun, H. (2018, April). Performance Analysis of Behavior-based Solutions in Vehicular Networks. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018), Honolulu, HI, USA

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 universal tree-based network with the minimum number of reticulations (2018)
Journal Article
Bordewich, M., & Semple, C. (2018). A universal tree-based network with the minimum number of reticulations. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 250, 357-362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2018.05.010

A tree-based network N on X is universal if every rooted binary phylogenetic X-tree is a base tree for N. Hayamizu and, independently, Zhang constructively showed that, for all positive integers n, there exists an universal tree-based network on n le... Read More about A universal tree-based network with the minimum number of reticulations.

A Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid Testbed Based on Software Defined Radio and Real Time Digital Simulator (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
You, M., Liu, Q., & Sun, H. (2018, May). A Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid Testbed Based on Software Defined Radio and Real Time Digital Simulator. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications, Kansas City, MO, USA

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.