Anomaly Detection for IoT Time-Series Data: A Survey (2019)
Journal Article
Misirli, & Fan. (2019). Anomaly Detection for IoT Time-Series Data: A Survey. IEEE Internet of Things, https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2019.2958185

Abstract—Anomaly detection is a problem with applications
for a wide variety of domains, it involves the identification of novel or unexpected observations or sequences within the data being captured. The majority of current anomaly detection method... Read More about Anomaly Detection for IoT Time-Series Data: A Survey.

Distributed Caching in Wireless Cellular Networks Incorporating Parallel Processing (2018)
Journal Article
Fan. (2018). Distributed Caching in Wireless Cellular Networks Incorporating Parallel Processing. IEEE Internet Computing, 52 -61. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2018.112101645

Distributed caching is a promising technique for reducing redundant data traffic and user content access delay in telecommunications systems. This article explores caching technologies with a focus on the processing of content requests in today’s hie... Read More about Distributed Caching in Wireless Cellular Networks Incorporating Parallel Processing.

Enhanced Collision Avoidance for Distributed LTE Vehicle to Vehicle Broadcast Communications (2018)
Journal Article
Fan. (2018). Enhanced Collision Avoidance for Distributed LTE Vehicle to Vehicle Broadcast Communications. IEEE Communications Letters, 630 - 633. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2791399

In this letter, we investigate the distributed autonomous resource selection for LTE vehicle to vehicle (V2V) broadcast. The effectiveness of collision avoidance and location based resource allocation enhancements is examined. It is found that collis... Read More about Enhanced Collision Avoidance for Distributed LTE Vehicle to Vehicle Broadcast Communications.

Secure Real-Time Monitoring and Management of Smart Distribution Grid Using Shared Cellular Network (2017)
Journal Article
Fan. (2017). Secure Real-Time Monitoring and Management of Smart Distribution Grid Using Shared Cellular Network. IEEE Wireless Communications, 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.1600252

The electricity production and distribution is facing two major changes. First, the production is shifting from classical energy sources such as coal and nuclear power towards renewable resources such as solar and wind. Secondly, the consumption in t... Read More about Secure Real-Time Monitoring and Management of Smart Distribution Grid Using Shared Cellular Network.

Secure Real-Time Monitoring and Management of Smart Distribution Grid using Shared Cellular Networks (2017)
Journal Article
Fan. (2017). Secure Real-Time Monitoring and Management of Smart Distribution Grid using Shared Cellular Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications, 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.1600252

The electricity production and distribution is facing two major changes. First, the production is shifting from classical energy sources such as coal and nuclear power towards renewable resources such as solar and wind. Secondly, the consumption in t... Read More about Secure Real-Time Monitoring and Management of Smart Distribution Grid using Shared Cellular Networks.

A Mean Field Game Theoretic Approach to Electric Vehicles Charging (2016)
Journal Article
Fan. (2016). A Mean Field Game Theoretic Approach to Electric Vehicles Charging. IEEE Access, 3501 -3510. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2581989

Electric vehicles (EVs) provide environmentally friendly transport and they are considered to be an important component of distributed and mobile electric energy storage and supply system. It is possible that EVs can be used to store and transport en... Read More about A Mean Field Game Theoretic Approach to Electric Vehicles Charging.

Impact of Smart Metering Data Aggregation on Distribution System State Estimation (2016)
Journal Article
Fan. (2016). Impact of Smart Metering Data Aggregation on Distribution System State Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 1426 - 1437. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2016.2573272

Pseudo MV/LV (Medium/Low Voltage) transformer loads are usually used as partial inputs to the Distribution System
State Estimation (DSSE) in MV systems. Such pseudo load can be represented by the aggregation of Smart Metering (SM) data. This follows... Read More about Impact of Smart Metering Data Aggregation on Distribution System State Estimation.

Mitigating inter-cluster interference on the uplink for a three-cell clustered cooperative network (2016)
Journal Article
Fan. (2016). Mitigating inter-cluster interference on the uplink for a three-cell clustered cooperative network. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-016-0610-8

In this paper, we propose a practical and scalable solution to mitigating interference on the uplink through static clustering and adaptive fractional frequency reuse (CFFR). The focus is on a three-cell clustered network due to its low complexity. M... Read More about Mitigating inter-cluster interference on the uplink for a three-cell clustered cooperative network.

Sparse Malicious False Data Injection Attacks and Defense Mechanisms in Smart Grids (2015)
Journal Article
Fan. (2015). Sparse Malicious False Data Injection Attacks and Defense Mechanisms in Smart Grids. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 1198 - 1209. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2015.2475695

This paper discusses malicious false data injection attacks on the wide area measurement and monitoring system in smart grids. Firstly, methods of constructing sparse stealth attacks are developed for two typical scenarios: random attacks in which ar... Read More about Sparse Malicious False Data Injection Attacks and Defense Mechanisms in Smart Grids.

Rule Induction-Based Knowledge Discovery for Energy Efficiency (2015)
Journal Article
Fan. (2015). Rule Induction-Based Knowledge Discovery for Energy Efficiency. IEEE Access, 1423 - 1436. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2472355

Rule induction is a practical approach to knowledge discovery. Provided that a problem is developed, rule induction is able to return the knowledge that addresses the goal of this problem as if-then rules. The primary goals of knowledge discovery are... Read More about Rule Induction-Based Knowledge Discovery for Energy Efficiency.

A Game Theoretic Optimization Framework for Home Demand Management Incorporating Local Energy Resources (2015)
Journal Article
Fan. (2015). A Game Theoretic Optimization Framework for Home Demand Management Incorporating Local Energy Resources. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 353 - 362. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2015.2390035

Facilitated by advanced ICT infrastructure and optimization techniques, smart grid has the potential to bring significant benefits to the energy consumption management. This paper presents a game theoretic consumption scheduling framework based on th... Read More about A Game Theoretic Optimization Framework for Home Demand Management Incorporating Local Energy Resources.

M2M Communications for E-Health and Smart Grid: An Industry and Standard Perspective (2014)
Journal Article
Fan. (2014). M2M Communications for E-Health and Smart Grid: An Industry and Standard Perspective. IEEE Wireless Communications, 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2014.6757898

An overview of several standardization activities for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is presented, analyzing some of the enabling technologies and applications of M2M in industry sectors such as Smart Grid and e-Health. This summary and over... Read More about M2M Communications for E-Health and Smart Grid: An Industry and Standard Perspective.