Outputs (444)

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.

Enhancing Dynamic Voltage Stability in Power Systems with Distributed Generations (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, Q., Sun, H., & Matthews, P. (2017, October). Enhancing Dynamic Voltage Stability in Power Systems with Distributed Generations. Presented at 2017 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Dresden, German

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.

The Effect of Humidity on Microwave Characteristics of 2 Screen Printed Paper-Based Electronics (2018)
Journal Article
Shenton, S. A., Cooke, M. D., Racz, Z., Balocco, C., & Wood, D. (2018). The Effect of Humidity on Microwave Characteristics of 2 Screen Printed Paper-Based Electronics. physica status solidi (a) – applications and materials science, 215(11), Article 1700689. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201700689

This paper addresses one of the key issues in using paper electronics at microwave frequencies. As paper is hygroscopic, the varying moisture content can lead to differing dielectric and even conductive properties of paper electronics and must be tak... Read More about The Effect of Humidity on Microwave Characteristics of 2 Screen Printed Paper-Based Electronics.

Nash Bargaining Game-Theoretic Framework for Power Control in Distributed Multiple-Radar Architecture Underlying Wireless Communication System (2018)
Journal Article
Shi, C., Wang, F., Salous, S., Zhou, J., & Hu, Z. (2018). Nash Bargaining Game-Theoretic Framework for Power Control in Distributed Multiple-Radar Architecture Underlying Wireless Communication System. Entropy, 20(4), Article 267. https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040267

This paper presents a novel Nash bargaining solution (NBS)-based cooperative game-theoretic framework for power control in a distributed multiple-radar architecture underlying a wireless communication system. Our primary objective is to minimize the... Read More about Nash Bargaining Game-Theoretic Framework for Power Control in Distributed Multiple-Radar Architecture Underlying Wireless Communication System.

Improving handover of 5G networks by network function virtualization and fog computing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qiu, Y., Zhang, H., Long, K., Sun, H., Li, X., & Leung, V. (2017, October). Improving handover of 5G networks by network function virtualization and fog computing. Presented at 2017 6th IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC2017)., Qingdao, China

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.

Power Grid Observability Redundancy Analysis under Communication Constraints (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
You, M., Liu, Q., Jiang, J., & Sun, H. (2017, October). Power Grid Observability Redundancy Analysis under Communication Constraints. Presented at 2017 6th IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC2017)., Qingdao, China

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.

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.

Low Probability of Intercept-Based Radar Waveform Design for Spectral Coexistence of Distributed Multiple-Radar and Wireless Communication Systems in Clutter (2018)
Journal Article
Shi, C., Wang, F., Salous, S., & Zhou, J. (2018). Low Probability of Intercept-Based Radar Waveform Design for Spectral Coexistence of Distributed Multiple-Radar and Wireless Communication Systems in Clutter. Entropy, 20(3), Article 197. https://doi.org/10.3390/e20030197

In this paper, the problem of low probability of intercept (LPI)-based radar waveform design for distributed multiple-radar system (DMRS) is studied, which consists of multiple radars coexisting with a wireless communication system in the same freque... Read More about Low Probability of Intercept-Based Radar Waveform Design for Spectral Coexistence of Distributed Multiple-Radar and Wireless Communication Systems in Clutter.

Recovering normal networks from shortest inter-taxa distance information (2018)
Journal Article
Bordewich, M., Huber, K. T., Moulton, V., & Semple, C. (2018). Recovering normal networks from shortest inter-taxa distance information. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 77(3), 571-594. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-018-1218-x

Phylogenetic networks are a type of leaf-labelled, acyclic, directed graph used by biologists to represent the evolutionary history of species whose past includes reticulation events. A phylogenetic network is tree–child if each non-leaf vertex is th... Read More about Recovering normal networks from shortest inter-taxa distance information.

Indoor Dual Polarised Radio Channel Characterization in the 54 GHz and 70 GHz bands (2018)
Journal Article
Raimundo, X., Salous, S., & Cheema, A. (2018). Indoor Dual Polarised Radio Channel Characterization in the 54 GHz and 70 GHz bands. IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, 12(8), 1287-1292. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2017.0711

In this study, results of wideband dual polarised measurements conducted in indoor environments including office, factory, corridor and computer foyer, using state-of-the-art 2×2 multiple-input–multiple-output frequency modulated continuous wave-base... Read More about Indoor Dual Polarised Radio Channel Characterization in the 54 GHz and 70 GHz bands.

Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds for Joint Target Parameter Estimation in FM-Based Distributed Passive Radar Network with Antenna Arrays (2018)
Journal Article
Shi, C., Wang, F., Salous, S., & Zhou, J. (2018). Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds for Joint Target Parameter Estimation in FM-Based Distributed Passive Radar Network with Antenna Arrays. Radio Science, 53(3), 314-333. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017rs006471

To avoid the disadvantages of the active radar which utilizes its own transmitter to emit electromagnetic radiations, passive radars use the signals readily available in the environment and can provide superior capabilities of stealth target detectio... Read More about Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds for Joint Target Parameter Estimation in FM-Based Distributed Passive Radar Network with Antenna Arrays.

Adaptive Sensing Schedule for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in Time-varying Channel (2018)
Journal Article
Sun, M., Wang, X., Zhao, C., Li, B., Liang, Y., Goussetis, G., & Salous, S. (2018). Adaptive Sensing Schedule for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in Time-varying Channel. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 67(6), 5520-5524. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvt.2018.2797318

Dynamic spectrum sharing is considered as one of the key features in the next-generation communications. In this correspondence, we investigate the dynamic tradeoff between the sensing performance and the achievable throughput, in the presence of tim... Read More about Adaptive Sensing Schedule for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in Time-varying Channel.

On differential modulation in downlink multiuser MIMO systems (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsifiany, F., Ikhlef, A., & Chambers, J. (2017, December). On differential modulation in downlink multiuser MIMO systems. Presented at In Proc. of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos Island, Greece

Optimal transmit power minimization in secure MU-MISO SWIPT systems (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alageli, M., Ikhlef, A., & Chambers, J. (2017, December). Optimal transmit power minimization in secure MU-MISO SWIPT systems. Presented at In Proc. of IEEE ICUWB Workshop on Communications with Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer, Salamanca, Spain

On the information content of discrete phylogenetic characters (2017)
Journal Article
Bordewich, M., Deutschmann, I. M., Fischer, M., Kasbohm, E., Semple, C., & Steel, M. (2018). On the information content of discrete phylogenetic characters. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 77(3), 527-544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-017-1198-2

Phylogenetic inference aims to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships of different species based on genetic (or other) data. Discrete characters are a particular type of data, which contain information on how the species should be grouped togethe... Read More about On the information content of discrete phylogenetic characters.

Multiobjective Optimization for Demand Side Management in Smart Grid (2017)
Journal Article
Li, D., Sun, H., Chiu, W., & Poor, V. (2018). Multiobjective Optimization for Demand Side Management in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(4), 1482-1490. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2017.2776104

Demand side management (DSM) plays an important role in smart grid. In this paper, a hierarchical day-ahead DSM model is proposed, where renewable energy sources (RESs) are integrated. The proposed model consists of three layers: the utility in the u... Read More about Multiobjective Optimization for Demand Side Management in Smart Grid.