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# IEEE Systems Journal

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Early Access articles are made available in advance of the final electronic or print versions. Early Access articles are peer reviewed but may not be fully edited. They are fully citable from the moment they appear in IEEE Xplore.

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• ### MAS-Based Distributed Cooperative Control for DC Microgrid Through Switching Topology Communication Network with Time-Varying Delays

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 10
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A multiagent system based distributed cooperative control is proposed for a dc microgrid. First, the multiagent system based control scheme is built, where each distributed energy resource unit is associated with a first-level unit control agent to deal with primary control and a secondary-level distributed cooperative control agents to implement secondary control. For the secondary control purpos... View full abstract»

• ### A Human–Machine Methodology for Investigating Systems Thinking in a Complex Corpus

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Systems thinking characterizes the paradigm needed to effectively design, maintain, and utilize systems. Prior work has shown that there is a language of systems thinking and that its presence can be quantified within text using supervised learning methods. Building on this foundation, we present a human-in-the-loop methodology that utilizes topic models to facilitate the identification of systems... View full abstract»

• ### A Practical Analytical Approach to Increase Confidence in PLD-Based Systems Safety Analysis

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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The use of programmable logic devices (PLDs) in safety-critical systems has meaningfully increased over the past years, driven by advantages such as reduced development costs and time-to-market. Despite such increasing use, current standards that support the development of safety-critical systems have still not appropriately addressed how to certificate PLD-based systems. Recent bibliography on th... View full abstract»

• ### Dynamic Resource Prediction and Allocation for Cloud Data Center Using the Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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In order to optimize the resource utilization of physical machines (PMs), the workload prediction of virtual machines (VMs) is vital but challenging. Most of existing literatures focus on either resource prediction or allocation individually, but both of them are highly correlated. In this paper, we propose a multiobjective genetic algorithm (GA) to dynamically forecast the resource utilization an... View full abstract»

• ### Protocol Design for Enabling Full-Duplex Operation in Next-Generation IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Full-duplex (FD) technology is under consideration for adoption in various legacy communications standards. The IEEE 802.11ax working group has been considering a simultaneous transmit and receive (STR) mode for the next-generation wireless local area networks (WLANs). Enabling STR mode (FD communication mode) in 802.11 networks creates bidirectional FD (BFD) and unidirectional FD (UFD) links. The... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Analysis of an Opportunistic Relaying Power Line Communication Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 4
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Powerline communication (PLC) is an attractive approach to providing information transfer services for future smart grids. However, due to high attenuation and interference, it is a great challenge to achieve reliable transmissions over PLC channels. In this  letter, we propose an opportunistic decode-and-forward-based multiple-relaying (ODFR) scheme to enhance the performance of PLC networ... View full abstract»

• ### Using LDA to Uncover the Underlying Structures and Relations in Smart City Data Streams

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Recent advancements in sensing, networking technologies, and collecting real-world data on a large scale and from various environments have created an opportunity for new forms of real-world services and applications. This is known under the umbrella term of the Internet of Things (IoT). Physical sensor devices constantly produce very large amounts of data. Methods are needed which give the raw se... View full abstract»

• ### On the Interaction Between Joint Tx/Rx IQI and Channel Estimation Errors in DVB-T Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 8
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Digital video broadcasting terrestrial (DVB-T) systems use hierarchical modulation, which involve a “high-priority” and a “low-priority” (LP) bit stream. An inherent weakness of this scheme is the severe performance degradation of the less protected LP stream. In addition, the presence of inphase quadrature imbalance (IQI) at both transmitter/receiver front end may sign... View full abstract»

• ### A Multi-Cooperative-Based Approach to Manage Communication in Wireless Instrumentation Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Wireless instrumentation systems are a collection of resource-constrained nodes in charge of sensing, processing, and transmitting data. They are often battery powered, and consequently, subject to energy constraints. Since communication is the most energy-consuming task, efforts have to be made during the routing process in order to maximize the network lifespan and avoid network partitioning. In... View full abstract»

• ### Guest Editorial Special Issue on Hybrid Intelligence for Internet of Vehicles

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 3
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• ### Power Network Protection Using Wide-Area Measurements Considering Uncertainty in Data Availability

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 11
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The wide-area measurement system (WAMS) is being incorporated in power systems for improved performance of monitoring, control, and protection schemes. During unavailability of synchrophasor data from critical buses, schemes utilizing the WAMS may become inactive or susceptible to malfunction. WAMS data may not be available due to failure of communication or measuring instruments. This pape... View full abstract»

• ### OFBench: Performance Test Suite on OpenFlow Switches

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 11
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Performance issues of OpenFlow switches are attracting a lot of attention owing to the potential large-scale deployment of software-defined devices. This paper presents the OFBench which is an automatic test suite for evaluating the performance of OpenFlow switches. The design, as part of the Automation Control Test System (ACTS) development, is based on a controller-agent architecture which allow... View full abstract»

• ### An Adaptive Low-Power Listening Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks in Noisy Environments

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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This paper investigates the energy consumption minimization problem for wireless sensor networks running low-power listening (LPL) protocols in noisy environments. We observe that the energy consumption by false wakeups (i.e., wakeup without receiving any packet) of a node in noisy environments can be a dominant factor in many cases while the false wakeup rate is spatially and temporarily dynamic.... View full abstract»

• ### A Survey on Model-Based Mission Planning and Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 13
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Different drivers are nowadays leading spacecraft toward an increased level of on-board autonomy. In this paper, we survey model-based techniques as a vehicle to implement highly autonomous on-board capabilities for spacecraft mission planning and execution. In this respect, spacecraft reconfiguration approaches based on Markovian Decision Process are explored, and then compared with other model-b... View full abstract»

• ### Improving Reliability of Emergency Data Frame Transmission in IEEE 802.15.6 Wireless Body Area Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are formed by tiny and intelligent sensor devices that are implanted within the tissue or attached on the surface of the human body to acquire both periodic as well as emergency physiological data. WBANs should be capable of reporting physiological emergency events to the doctors and care-givers reliably and as quickly as possible. In this paper, we propose and ... View full abstract»

• ### Toward Constructive Relay-Based Cooperative Routing in MANETs

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Frequent link breaks (due to node mobility) and quick exhaustion of energy (due to limited battery volume) are two major problems impacting on the flexibility in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Cooperative communication in MANETs has become an appealing topic, as it can improve system capacity and energy efficiency. In spite of such advantages of cooperative communication, some issues still remai... View full abstract»

• ### Cryptography-Based Misbehavior Detection and Trust Control Mechanism for Opportunistic Network Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Opportunistic networks (OppNets) are a subclass of delay tolerant networks and are characterized by intermittent end-to-end connections. The sparsity in the network and the resource constraint of devices always restricts the use of cryptographic solutions for security needs in the OppNets for thwarting selfishness of the nodes. The trust-based mechanisms are capable of providing social security in... View full abstract»

• ### Energy Efficient Cooperation Based on Relay Switching ON–OFF Probability for WSNs

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Cooperative communications can substantially improve the performance in fading channels. However, in energy-constrained wireless sensor networks, the benefits of cooperation only go until certain limits, beyond which the energy cost of cooperation can be significant and unprofitable. We propose a cooperative scheme in which the relays activate the receiving circuitry based on a switching ON–... View full abstract»

• ### A User Perspective Optimization Scheme for Demand-Side Energy Management

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 4
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In this paper, a demand-side energy management scheme is proposed to minimize the electricity cost and the peak-to-average ratio. A particle swarm optimization strategy is integrated with a game-theoretical approach in order to solve a nonconvex problem of appliance scheduling. The unknowns of the optimization problem are modeled from the user perspective taking in consideration the real-world con... View full abstract»

• ### A Robust Optimization Approach for Active and Reactive Power Management in Smart Distribution Networks Using Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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This paper presents a robust framework for active and reactive power management in distribution networks using electric vehicles (EVs). The method simultaneously minimizes the energy cost and the voltage deviation subject to network and EVs constraints. The uncertainties related to active and reactive loads, required energy to charge EV batteries, charge rate of batteries and charger capacity of E... View full abstract»

• ### Multiobjective Model of Time-of-Use and Stepwise Power Tariff for Residential Consumers in Regulated Power Markets

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Time-of-use (TOU) rates and stepwise power tariff (SPT) are important economic levers to motivate residents to shift their electricity usage in response to electricity price. In this paper, a new multiobjective optimal tariff-making model of TOU and SPT (TOUSPT) is proposed, which combines the complementary characteristics of two power tariffs, for residential energy conservation and peak load sha... View full abstract»

• ### A Decentralized Robust Mixed $H_{{2}}/ H_{{{\infty }}}$ Voltage Control Scheme to Improve Small/Large-Signal Stability and FRT Capability of Islanded Multi-DER Microgrid Considering Load Disturbances

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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This paper presents a decentralized robust mixed $H_{{2}}/ H_{{{\infty }}}$ control strategy for autonomous/islanded multidistributed energy resources (multi-DER) voltage-sourced converter based microgrids. The power management system specifies voltage set points for local controllers and the frequency of each DER unit is specified by hierarchical droop-based c... View full abstract»

• ### Stochastic Multiobjective Distribution Systems Phase Balancing Considering Distributed Energy Resources

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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A distribution system is usually unbalanced due to its various loads types with different connection patterns. So phase balancing is taken into consideration in distribution networks. Rephasing is the most effective method for phase balancing of distribution networks but the distributed generation (DG) effect on distribution networks phase balancing is also considerable. In this paper, smart distr... View full abstract»

• ### Fuzzy-Adaptive Frequency Control of Power System Including Microgrids, Wind Farms, and Conventional Power Plants

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 10
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In this paper, the effect of the increased penetration of wind farms (WFs) and microgrids (MGs) on the frequency control of power systems is studied. WFs are responsible to contribute in load frequency control of power system by changing their injected electrical power. A new control method is proposed to utilize the kinetic energy of wind turbines to support system frequency, considering minimum ... View full abstract»

• ### Link Quality Analysis Based Channel Selection in High-Frequency Asynchronous Automatic Link Establishment: A Matrix Completion Approach

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 12
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Asynchronous automatic link establishment (ALE) has been utilized for decades in high-frequency communications due to its operational simplicity. During the process of ALE, the nodes select the channel with the best channel quality based on a link quality analysis (LQA) matrix, which is derived mainly from channel sounding. However, some elements in the matrix can be missing because of the failure... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

The IEEE Systems Journal is created to provide a systems-level focused forum for application-oriented manuscripts that address complex systems and system-of-systems of national and global significance

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Professor Vincenzo Piuri
Università degli Studi di Milano