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Roaming Electric Vehicle Charging and Billing: an Anonymous Multi-User Protocol (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mustafa, M., Zhang, N., Kalogridis, G., & Fan, Z. (2014, November). Roaming Electric Vehicle Charging and Billing: an Anonymous Multi-User Protocol. Presented at 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART GRID COMMUNICATIONS (SMARTGRIDCOMM, Venice, Italy

In this paper, we propose a secure roaming electric vehicle (EV) charging protocol that helps preserve users' privacy. During a charging session, a roaming EV user uses a pseudonym of the EV (known only to the user's contracted supplier) which is ano... Read More about Roaming Electric Vehicle Charging and Billing: an Anonymous Multi-User Protocol.

Optimal Malicious Attack Construction and Robust Detection in Smart Grid Cyber Security Analysis (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hao, J., Piechocki, R., Kaleshi, D., Chin, W., & Fan, Z. (2014, November). Optimal Malicious Attack Construction and Robust Detection in Smart Grid Cyber Security Analysis. Paper presented at 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART GRID COMMUNICATIONS (SMARTGRIDCOMM), Venice, Italy

Malicious data injection attacks against smart grid systems are one of the most significant problems in cyber security. Previously, these are either targeted attacks or attacks with restrictions. In this paper, optimal random undetectable attacks are... Read More about Optimal Malicious Attack Construction and Robust Detection in Smart Grid Cyber Security Analysis.

Reconsidering the Smart Metering Data Collection Frequency for Distribution State Estimation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, Q., Kaleshi, D., Armour, S., & Fan, Z. (2014, November). Reconsidering the Smart Metering Data Collection Frequency for Distribution State Estimation. Presented at 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART GRID COMMUNICATIONS (SMARTGRIDCOMM), Venice, Italy

The current UK Smart Metering Technical Specification requires smart meter readings to be collected once a day, primarily to support accurate billing without violating users' privacy. In this paper we consider the use of Smart Metering data for Distr... Read More about Reconsidering the Smart Metering Data Collection Frequency for Distribution State Estimation.

A Wearable Face Recognition System on Google Glass for Assisting Social Interactions (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mandal, B., Chia, S.-C., Li, L., Chandrasekhar, V., Tan, C., & Lim, J.-H. (2014, November). A Wearable Face Recognition System on Google Glass for Assisting Social Interactions. Presented at Computer Vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops, Singapore, Singapore

In this paper, we present a wearable face recognition (FR) system on Google Glass (GG) to assist users in social interactions. FR is the first step towards face-to-face social interactions. We propose a wearable system on GG, which acts as a social i... Read More about A Wearable Face Recognition System on Google Glass for Assisting Social Interactions.

Computer-assisted reconstruction of virtual fragmented cuneiform tablets (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Collins, T., Woolley, S., Hernandez Munoz, L., Lewis, A., Ch’ng, E., & Gehlken, E. (2014, December). Computer-assisted reconstruction of virtual fragmented cuneiform tablets. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM)

The development of a collaborative virtual environment for 3D reconstruction of cuneiform tablets (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ch'ng, E., Woolley, S. I., Hernandez-Munoz, L., Collins, T., Lewis, A., & Gehlken, E. (2014, December). The development of a collaborative virtual environment for 3D reconstruction of cuneiform tablets. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM), Hong Kong, China

The efficient reconstruction of ancient cuneiform tablets has been a challenging problem over many decades, which if an approach is found to speed up the rate of potential fragment joins, will lead to a discovery of rich historical records of knowled... Read More about The development of a collaborative virtual environment for 3D reconstruction of cuneiform tablets.

Mobile Camera Source Identification with SVD (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Soobhany, A.-R., Lam, K., Fletcher, P., & Collins, D. (2015, January). Mobile Camera Source Identification with SVD. Presented at Innovations and Advances in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, Networking and Engineering

A novel method for extracting the characterising sensor pattern noise (SPN) from digital images is presented. Based on the spectral decomposition technique of Singular Value Decomposition, the method estimates the SPN of each image in terms of its en... Read More about Mobile Camera Source Identification with SVD.

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.

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.

Label free cell tracking in 3-D tissue engineering constructs with high resolution imaging (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, W., Lam, K.-P., Dempsey, K., Mazzocchi-Jones, D., Richardson, J., & Yang, Y. Label free cell tracking in 3-D tissue engineering constructs with high resolution imaging. Presented at Dynamics and Fluctuations in Biomedical Photonics XI

Within the field of tissue engineering there is an emphasis on studying 3-D live tissue structures. Consequently, to investigate and identify cellular activities and phenotypes in a 3-D environment for all in vitro experiments, including shape, migra... Read More about Label free cell tracking in 3-D tissue engineering constructs with high resolution imaging.

Smart grid health monitoring via dynamic compressive sensing. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hao, J., Piechocki, R., Kaleshi, D., Chin, W., & Fan, Z. (2013, October). Smart grid health monitoring via dynamic compressive sensing. Paper presented at IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2013, Lyngby, Denmark

This work proposes a novel method based on compressive sensing homotopy to dynamically track power line parameters with voltage phasor angle data from phasor measurement units (PMUs). In the literature, compressive sensing has already been successful... Read More about Smart grid health monitoring via dynamic compressive sensing..

Inferring low voltage transformer state using only Smart Metering data. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, Q., Kaleshi, D., & Fan, Z. (2013, January). Inferring low voltage transformer state using only Smart Metering data. Presented at IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2013, Lyngby, Denmark

Previous works on Distribution State Estimation (DSE) utilizing Smart Metering (SM) data assume the availability of sufficient measurements from distributed generators and Low Voltage (LV) transformers as well. However, both distributed generators an... Read More about Inferring low voltage transformer state using only Smart Metering data..

Downlink Spectrum Allocation for Macro-Femto Networks (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cao, F., Sooriyabandara, M., & Fan, Z. (2013, June). Downlink Spectrum Allocation for Macro-Femto Networks. Presented at 2013 IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Dresden, Germany

In this paper, a new spectrum allocation method is proposed to address the downlink interference problem in heterogeneous macro-femto networks, where distributed femtocells coexist with macrocells. In practical heterogeneous macro-femto networks, nor... Read More about Downlink Spectrum Allocation for Macro-Femto Networks.

Downlink Power Control for Femtocell Networks (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cao, F., & Fan, Z. (2013, June). Downlink Power Control for Femtocell Networks. Paper presented at 2013 IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Dresden, Germany

Deploying femtocell networks achieves great spatial reuse at the price of severe interference from concurrent transmissions. To mitigate the downlink interference from femtocell base stations (FBSs) to nearby macrocell users (MUEs), power control is... Read More about Downlink Power Control for Femtocell Networks.