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Potential of social media to determine hay fever seasons and drug efficacy (2014)
Journal Article
Kyriacou, & De Quincey. (2014). Potential of social media to determine hay fever seasons and drug efficacy

This working paper describes an exploratory study that has collected and analysed over 130,000 UK geolocated tweets from June 2012 to April 2013 that contained instances of the words “hayfever” and “hay fever”. Preliminary results indicate that the t... Read More about Potential of social media to determine hay fever seasons and drug efficacy.

Clustered Network MIMO and Fractional Frequency Reuse for the Downlink in LTE-A Systems (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thampi, A., Armour, S., Fan, Z., & Kaleshi, D. (2014, May). Clustered Network MIMO and Fractional Frequency Reuse for the Downlink in LTE-A Systems. Presented at European Wireless 2014; 20th European Wireless Conference, Barcelona, Spain

Interference is one of the major performance limiting factors in MIMO-based cellular systems. A promising interference coordination strategy being studied in 4G LTEAdvanced systems and beyond is Network MIMO. In systems based on Network MIMO, base st... Read More about Clustered Network MIMO and Fractional Frequency Reuse for the Downlink in LTE-A Systems.

Where antibiotic resistance mutations meet quorum-sensing (2014)
Journal Article
Channon. (2014). Where antibiotic resistance mutations meet quorum-sensing. Microbial Cell, 250 - 252. https://doi.org/10.15698/mic2014.07.158

We do not need to rehearse the grim story of the global rise of antibiotic resistant microbes. But what if it were possible to control the rate with which antibiotic resistance evolves by de novo mutation? It seems that some bacteria may already do e... Read More about Where antibiotic resistance mutations meet quorum-sensing.

The Reign of EVs?: An Economic Analysis from Consumer's Perspective (2014)
Journal Article
Fan. (2014). The Reign of EVs?: An Economic Analysis from Consumer's Perspective. IEEE Electrification Magazine, 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1109/mele.2014.2312459

Traditionally, petroleum (oil) has been the main source of energy for the U.S. national economy and transportation sector. In 2010, 83% of all the energy required by the United States was provided by fossil fuel sources. The energy use in the United... Read More about The Reign of EVs?: An Economic Analysis from Consumer's Perspective.

Toward Unified Security and Privacy Protection for Smart Meter Networks (2014)
Journal Article
Fan. (2014). Toward Unified Security and Privacy Protection for Smart Meter Networks. IEEE Systems Journal, 641 - 654. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2013.2260940

The management of security and privacy protection mechanisms is one fundamental issue of future smart grid and metering networks. Designing effective and economic measures is a non-trivial task due to a) the large number of system requirements and b)... Read More about Toward Unified Security and Privacy Protection for Smart Meter Networks.

Long-wave asymptotic theories: the connection between functionally graded waveguides and periodic media (2014)
Journal Article
Kaplunov. (2014). Long-wave asymptotic theories: the connection between functionally graded waveguides and periodic media. Wave Motion, 581 - 588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wavemoti.2013.09.007

This article explores the deep connections that exist between the mathematical representations of dynamic phenomena in functionally graded waveguides and those in periodic media. These connections are at their most obvious for low-frequency and long-... Read More about Long-wave asymptotic theories: the connection between functionally graded waveguides and periodic media.

Tuning receiver characteristics in bacterial quorum communication: An evolutionary approach using standard virtual biological parts (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hallinan, J. S., Gilfellon, O., Misirli, G., & Wipat, A. (2014, May). Tuning receiver characteristics in bacterial quorum communication: An evolutionary approach using standard virtual biological parts. Presented at 2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB), Honolulu, HI, USA

Populations of bacteria acting in collaboration can produce complex behaviors which are not achievable by individual cells. There has, consequently, been considerable interest in the engineering of bacterial populations. Here we describe an approach... Read More about Tuning receiver characteristics in bacterial quorum communication: An evolutionary approach using standard virtual biological parts.

DESA: A Decentralized, Efficient and Selective Aggregation Scheme in AMI (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mustafa, M., Zhang, N., Kalogridis, G., & Fan, Z. (2014, February). DESA: A Decentralized, Efficient and Selective Aggregation Scheme in AMI. Presented at ISGT 2014, Washington, DC

In this paper we propose a decentralized, efficient and selective aggregation (DESA) scheme for secure and privacy-preserving communication in AMI. Unlike existing aggregation schemes, DESA uses a multi-recipient system model that is more applicable... Read More about DESA: A Decentralized, Efficient and Selective Aggregation Scheme in AMI.