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Trust-based Model for Securing Vehicular Networks Against RSU Attacks (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alnasser, A., & Sun, H. (2021, May). Trust-based Model for Securing Vehicular Networks Against RSU Attacks. Presented at IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), Vancouver, BC

Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is one of the Internet of Things (IoT) systems that can achieve reliable transportation by providing communications between vehicles and infrastructure units. The interaction between them is called Vehicle-to-E... Read More about Trust-based Model for Securing Vehicular Networks Against RSU Attacks.

QoS-Balancing Algorithm for Optimal Relay Selection in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks (2021)
Journal Article
Alnasser, A., Sun, H., & Jiang, J. (2022). QoS-Balancing Algorithm for Optimal Relay Selection in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(7), 8223-8233. https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2021.3076901

Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) could facilitate communications among various road entities to improve the driver's safety and driving experience. These communications are called Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications that can be supporte... Read More about QoS-Balancing Algorithm for Optimal Relay Selection in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks.

Key performance‐cost tradeoffs in smart electric vehicle charging with distributed generation (2021)
Journal Article
Heron, J. W., Sun, H., Alizadeh‐Mousavi, O., & Crossland, A. (2021). Key performance‐cost tradeoffs in smart electric vehicle charging with distributed generation. IET Smart Grid, 4(6), 561-581. https://doi.org/10.1049/stg2.12041

Growing penetration of Electric Vehicles (EV) and Distributed Generation (DG) is driving sharper peaks in demand and supply, which, if poorly managed, manifest as over- or undervoltage and disrupt grid service quality. Smart charging schemes reschedu... Read More about Key performance‐cost tradeoffs in smart electric vehicle charging with distributed generation.

Continuous Droplet-Actuating Platforms via an Electric Field Gradient: Electrowetting and Liquid Dielectrophoresis (2021)
Journal Article
Frozanpoor, I., Cooke, M. D., Ambukan, V., Gallant, A. J., & Balocco, C. (2021). Continuous Droplet-Actuating Platforms via an Electric Field Gradient: Electrowetting and Liquid Dielectrophoresis. Langmuir, 37(21), 6414-6422. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00329

This work develops a technology for actuating droplets of any size without the requirement for high voltages or active control systems, which are typically found in competitive systems. The droplet actuation relies on two microelectrodes separated by... Read More about Continuous Droplet-Actuating Platforms via an Electric Field Gradient: Electrowetting and Liquid Dielectrophoresis.

Improving Robotic Grasping on Monocular Images Via Multi-Task Learning and Positional Loss (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prew, W., Breckon, T., Bordewich, M., & Beierholm, U. (2021, January). Improving Robotic Grasping on Monocular Images Via Multi-Task Learning and Positional Loss. Presented at 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020), Milan, Italy

In this paper we introduce two methods of improving real-time object grasping performance from monocular colour images in an end-to-end CNN architecture. The first is the addition of an auxiliary task during model training (multi-task learning). Our... Read More about Improving Robotic Grasping on Monocular Images Via Multi-Task Learning and Positional Loss.

Programmable droplet actuating platform using liquid dielectrophoresis (2021)
Journal Article
Frozanpoor, I., Cooke, M., Racz, Z., Bossons, I., Ambukan, V., Wood, D., Gallant, A., & Balocco, C. (2021). Programmable droplet actuating platform using liquid dielectrophoresis. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 31(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6439/abf032

Droplet motion has been a long-standing interest in microfluidics as it is often limited by the high operating voltages, which hampers the development of consumer applications. Forces generated by liquid dielectrophoresis (L-DEP) can enhance surface... Read More about Programmable droplet actuating platform using liquid dielectrophoresis.

Closest Energy Matching: Improving peer‐to‐peer energy trading auctions for EV owners (2021)
Journal Article
Thomas, H., Sun, H., & Kazemtabrizi, B. (2021). Closest Energy Matching: Improving peer‐to‐peer energy trading auctions for EV owners. IET Smart Grid, 4(4), 445-460. https://doi.org/10.1049/stg2.12016

Herein, a novel approach to conduct peer-to-peer energy auctions for electric vehicles (EVs) to benefit both buyers and sellers is presented. It considers a scenario where households can sell their surplus solar energy to visiting EVs that make use o... Read More about Closest Energy Matching: Improving peer‐to‐peer energy trading auctions for EV owners.

Delay Guaranteed Joint User Association and Channel Allocation for Fog Radio Access Networks (2021)
Journal Article
You, M., Zheng, G., Chen, T., Sun, H., & Chen, K.-C. (2021). Delay Guaranteed Joint User Association and Channel Allocation for Fog Radio Access Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 20(6), 3723-3733. https://doi.org/10.1109/twc.2021.3053155

In the Fog Radio Access Networks (F-RANs), the local storage and computing capability of Fog Access Points (FAPs) provide new communication resources to address the latency and computing constraints for delay-sensitive applications. To achieve the ul... Read More about Delay Guaranteed Joint User Association and Channel Allocation for Fog Radio Access Networks.

Data-driven Pricing and Control for Low Carbon V2G Charging Station with Balancing Services (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hernandez Cedillo, M., & Sun, H. (2020, November). Data-driven Pricing and Control for Low Carbon V2G Charging Station with Balancing Services. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), Tempe, AZ

The transition to a low carbon transportation system has brought many challenges for researchers, one major challenge is how to ensure power system reliability as a result of high load demands to supply energy to Electric Vehicles (EVs) while coping... Read More about Data-driven Pricing and Control for Low Carbon V2G Charging Station with Balancing Services.

Fredholm-regularity of holomorphic discs in plane bundles over compact surfaces (2020)
Journal Article
Guilfoyle, B., & Klingenberg, W. (2020). Fredholm-regularity of holomorphic discs in plane bundles over compact surfaces. Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse (En ligne), 29(3), 565-576. https://doi.org/10.5802/afst.1639

We study the space of holomorphic discs with boundary on a surface in a real 2-dimensional vector bundle over a compact 2-manifold. We prove that, if the ambient 4-manifold admits a fibre-preserving transitive holomorphic action, then a section with... Read More about Fredholm-regularity of holomorphic discs in plane bundles over compact surfaces.

Covert Communication with Relay Selection (2020)
Journal Article
Su, Y., Sun, H., Zhang, Z., Lian, Z., Xie, Z., & Wang, Y. (2021). Covert Communication with Relay Selection. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 10(2), 421-425. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2020.3033786

In this letter, we investigate covert communication in relay networks with relay selection. We consider the scenario that while forwarding the source’s message, the selected relay opportunistically transmits its own message to the destination covertl... Read More about Covert Communication with Relay Selection.

Engineering Resilient Complex Systems: The Necessary Shift Toward Complexity Science (2020)
Journal Article
Punzo, G., Tewari, A., Butans, E., Vasile, M., Purvis, A., Mayfield, M., & Varga, L. (2020). Engineering Resilient Complex Systems: The Necessary Shift Toward Complexity Science. IEEE Systems Journal, 14(3), 3865-3874. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsyst.2019.2958829

This position article addresses resilience in complex engineering and engineered systems (CES). It offers a synthesis of academic thinking with an empirical analysis of the challenge. This article puts forward argumentations and a conceptual framewor... Read More about Engineering Resilient Complex Systems: The Necessary Shift Toward Complexity Science.

Coil Design for Wireless Vehicle-to-Vehicle Charging Systems (2020)
Journal Article
Mou, X., Gladwin, D. T., Zhao, R., Sun, H., & Yang, Z. (2020). Coil Design for Wireless Vehicle-to-Vehicle Charging Systems. IEEE Access, 8, 172723-172733. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3025787

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are seeing increasing worldwide adoption, largely due to their reduced greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on hydrocarbons. Slow advances in battery technology are one of major factors restricting the development of EVs. Man... Read More about Coil Design for Wireless Vehicle-to-Vehicle Charging Systems.

A Blockchain Based Peer-to-Peer Trading Framework Integrating Energy and Carbon Markets (2020)
Journal Article
Hua, W., Jiang, J., Sun, H., & Wu, J. (2020). A Blockchain Based Peer-to-Peer Trading Framework Integrating Energy and Carbon Markets. Applied Energy, 279, Article 115539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115539

Prosumers are active participants in future energy systems who produce and consume energy. However, the emerging role of prosumers brings challenges of tracing carbon emissions behaviours and formulating pricing scheme targeting on individual prosump... Read More about A Blockchain Based Peer-to-Peer Trading Framework Integrating Energy and Carbon Markets.

A review of methods to study resilience of complex engineering and engineered systems (2020)
Journal Article
Naghshbandi, S. N., Varga, L., Purvis, A., Mcwilliam, R., Minisci, E., Vasile, M., Troffaes, M., Sedighi, T., Guo, W., Manley, E., & Jones, D. H. (2020). A review of methods to study resilience of complex engineering and engineered systems. IEEE Access, 8(1), 87775-87799. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2992239

Uncertainty and interconnectedness in complex engineering and engineered systems such as power-grids and telecommunication networks are sources of vulnerability compromising the resilience of these systems. Conditions of uncertainty and interconnecte... Read More about A review of methods to study resilience of complex engineering and engineered systems.

An Internet of Things (IoT) Homecare Management System Using Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Almazroa, A., & Sun, H. (2021, April). An Internet of Things (IoT) Homecare Management System Using Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification. Presented at 11th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), Paris

Due to the fast growing of population, a lot of hospitals get crawdad from the huge amount of patients visits. The need for providing patient care while they are at home at anytime is important and the era of homecare should started. Internet of Thin... Read More about An Internet of Things (IoT) Homecare Management System Using Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification.

Radio propagation measurements and modeling for standardization of the site general path loss model in International Telecommunications Union recommendations for 5G wireless networks (2020)
Journal Article
Salous, S., Lee, J., Kim, M., Sasaki, M., Yamada, W., Raimundo, X., & Cheema, A. (2020). Radio propagation measurements and modeling for standardization of the site general path loss model in International Telecommunications Union recommendations for 5G wireless networks. Radio Science, 55(1), Article e2019RS006924. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019rs006924

The International Telecommunications Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU‐R) Study Group 3 identified the need for a number of radio channel models in anticipation of the World Radiocommunications Conference in 2019 when the frequency allocation for... Read More about Radio propagation measurements and modeling for standardization of the site general path loss model in International Telecommunications Union recommendations for 5G wireless networks.

A global version of a classical result of Joachimsthal (2019)
Journal Article
Guilfoyle, B., & Klingenberg, W. (2019). A global version of a classical result of Joachimsthal. Houston journal of mathematics, 45(2), 455-467

A classical result attributed to Joachimsthal in 1846 states that if two surfaces intersect with constant angle along a line of curvature of one surface, then the curve of intersection is also a line of curvature of the other surface. In this note we... Read More about A global version of a classical result of Joachimsthal.