# IEEE Systems Journal

### Early Access Articles

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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• ### An Energy Sensitive Computation Offloading Strategy in Cloud Robotic Network Based On GA

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 11
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Cloud robotic network (CRN) normally contains multiple mobile robots and a cloud computing center providing feasible solutions for many multiagent applications. One of the most critical issues in CRN and its application is how to effectively assign/offload computational tasks. This paper presents a novel energy sensitive task offloading strategy to answer the question particularly for CRN. First, ... View full abstract»

• ### An Extended Energy-Aware Cost Recovery Approach for Virtual Machine Migration

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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Energy supply problems, fuel costs, and global warming all suggest the continued need to explore possible savings through efficient scheduling and consolidation techniques. However, consolidation involves migrations that cost additional energy, so it can be more energy efficient not to consolidate. In several experiments, we found that efficient resource allocation methods can be more energy effic... View full abstract»

• ### Learning From Experts’ Experience: Toward Automated Cyber Security Data Triage

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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Security operations centers (SOCs) employ various cyber defend measures to monitor network events. Apart from these measures, SOCs also have to resort to human analysts to make sense of the collected data for incident detection and response. However, with the oncoming network data collected and accumulated at a rapid speed, analysts are usually overwhelmed by tedious and repeated data triage tasks... View full abstract»

• ### An Optimal Strategy for Determining True Bidding Values in Secure Spectrum Auctions

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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Previous research work has shown that using spectrum auctions for dynamic spectrum sharing systems can improve spectrum utilization significantly In this paper, we propose an optimal bidding mechanism to be used by base stations (BSs) participating in a spectrum auction. We consider a secure and truthful spectrum auction with an intermediate auctioneer that auctions its underutilized spectrum band... View full abstract»

• ### Transient Stability of Power Grids Comprising Wind Turbines: New Formulation, Implementation, and Application in Real-Time Assessment

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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Enhancing penetration of wind turbines in the modern power grids, the assessment of the transient stability has changed to a more complicated issue. This paper proposes an innovative real-time method based on the corrected kinetic energy, which aims to assess the transient stability of a power system comprising wind turbines by calculating critical clearing time. To enhance the accuracy of the cal... View full abstract»

• ### TAME: An Efficient Task Allocation Algorithm for Integrated Mobile Gaming

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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We consider an integrated mobile gaming platform, in which the mobile device (e.g., smartphone) of a player can offload some game tasks toward a server as well as some neighboring mobile devices. The advantages of such a platform are manyfold: it can lead to an improved game experience, to a better use of energy resources, and, while offloading tasks to other mobile users, to the exploitation of t... View full abstract»

• ### On Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Sensitivity Control Techniques in Next-Generation WLANs

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 4
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Dynamically adapting carrier sensing range, also known as dynamic sensitivity control (DSC), could be an attractive proposition for improving the spatial reuse in dense wireless local area networks. This paper shows the promise and pitfalls of a DSC technique proposed in the IEEE 802.11ax standard and highlights a solution to mitigate these issues. An analytical framework is also presented for the... View full abstract»

• ### Research on Functional Robustness of Heterogeneous Combat Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 9
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The combat system-of-systems in high-tech informative warfare consists of different types of combat systems connected via multiple interconnections, which can be abstracted as types of complex heterogeneous networks. Research on the functional robustness of heterogeneous combat networks (HCNs) is of significant military value for optimizing operation process planning and for improving network surv... View full abstract»

• ### Asynchronous Designs for Multiuser MIMO Wireless Powered Communication Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 11
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This paper considers multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs). In this system, a multiantenna power beacon (PB) transfers wireless energy to several multiantenna users, and then the users transmit data to a multiantenna base station. Time durations for the energy harvesting (EH) operations at each user can be differently set based on the users... View full abstract»

• ### Wide-Area Backup Protection Scheme for Transmission Lines Considering Cross-Country and Evolving Faults

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 10
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Wide-area fault detection and location for cross-country and evolving faults have not been discussed before in the open literature. This paper presents an innovative wide-area backup protection scheme for untransposed transmission lines considering cross-country and evolving faults. Synchronized voltages and currents measurements in the phase domain are used for fault detection and location. The p... View full abstract»

• ### The Mobile Sensor Deployment Problem and the Target Coverage Problem in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks are NP-Hard

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 4
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Recently, the problem of scheduling mobile sensors to cover all targets and maintain network connectivity such that the total movement distance is minimized, termed the mobile sensor deployment (MSD) problem, has received a great deal of attention. However, the complexity of the MSD problem remains unknown because no exact proof has been provided before. In this paper, we show that not only the MS... View full abstract»

• ### Robust AN-Aided Secure Beamforming and Power Splitting in Wireless-Powered AF Relay Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 4
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In this letter, we investigate the secrecy design in a wireless-powered amplify-and-forward relay network, where the relay is energy constrained and powered by the signal from the transmitter. Specifically, by adopting the power splitting (PS) scheme at the relay, we investigate the worst-case secrecy rate maximization by jointly designing the relay beamforming matrix, artificial noise covariance,... View full abstract»

• ### Approximating Common Control Channel Problem in Cognitive Radio Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) involve an extensive exchange of control messages to coordinate spectrum sensing, medium access, routing, etc. Static control channel allocation uses preassigned common control channel (CCC) contrary to the opportunistic access paradigm. We propose a $k$-hop clustering scheme for the optimal CCC assignment problem ($k$ View full abstract»

• ### A Classification-Based Algorithm to Detect Forged Embedded Machines in IoT Environments

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 11
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In the Internet of Things (IoT), interconnected devices manage essential information related to people’s lives; hence, securing this information is essential. The number of these machines is rapidly growing; these are mostly embedded, and therefore more susceptible to attacks. Recently, thousands of subverted IoT embedded machines, such as surveillance cameras, were used for launching distr... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Millimeter Wave Communication System

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication leverages the large bandwidth potentially available at mmWave frequency band to provide high data rate, and is proved to be a promising technology for future wireless communication. Prior work mainly investigates the partial performance instead of the overall mmWave communication system design and performance evaluation. Different from the existing work, in t... View full abstract»

• ### Toward Anycasting-Driven Reservation System for Electric Vehicle Battery Switch Service

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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Electro-mobility has become an increasingly important research problem in urban cities. Due to the limited electricity of battery, electric vehicle (EV) drivers may experience discomfort for long charging waiting time. Different from plug-in charging technology, we investigate the battery switch technology to improve EV drivers’ comfort (e.g., reduce the service waiting time from tens of mi... View full abstract»

• ### Operation Loop-Based Network Design Model for Defense Resource Allocation With Uncertainty

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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In the military arms race, the focus of the defender is on selecting the optimal development plan of armaments, i.e., advantageous defense resources allocation. As an indispensable feature of armaments, the cooperative interactions between different armaments influence their effectiveness directly, but they have not been elaborated yet in the existing study. In this regard, a mathematical formulat... View full abstract»

• ### Dynamic SSK-BPSK System Under Transmitter Correlated Nonidentical Rayleigh Fading

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 8
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Space shift keying (SSK) is a recent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) modulation scheme where information is conveyed by the index of the activated antenna. An advantage of SSK transmitter is that it requires only one radio frequency (RF) chain. To achieve transmit diversity in such a single RF chain two antenna transmitter, modulation is dynamically changed between SSK and a modified form of... View full abstract»

• ### A Learning-Based Method for Generating Synthetic Power Grids

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 10
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Analysis and improvement of power grids resilience and efficiency requires the topologies and geographical coordinates of the real transmission networks. However, due to security reasons, such topologies and particularly the locations of the substations and lines are usually not publicly available. In this work, we thoroughly study the structural properties of the U.S. Western Interconnection grid... View full abstract»

• ### Lightweight Server-Assisted H-K Compression for Image-Based Embedded Wireless Sensor Network

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 11
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Embedded wireless imaging systems based on wireless camera sensor network can be used to observe biological phenomena unobtrusively in various environmental monitoring applications. In our prior work, we have shown the feasibility and benefits of such a system through actual deployments. We have also shown that low-complexity data compression schemes can be employed to improve image transfer rate ... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Energy Management of Isolated Microgrids

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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This paper presents the mathematical formulation and architecture of a robust energy management system for isolated microgrids featuring renewable energy, energy storage, and interruptible loads. The proposed strategy addresses the challenges of renewable energy variability and forecast uncertainty using a two-stage decision process combined with a receding horizon approach. The first-stage decisi... View full abstract»

• ### Service Degradability Supported by Forecasting System in Optical Data Center Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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A large-scale distributed scientific computing develops rapidly, making the interconnection of data centers (DCs) become the focus in both academic and industrial communities. Since the fiber transmission has the characteristics of high capacity, low power consumption, and strong reliability, establishing the optical data center network (ODCN)—where DCs are interconnected via optical backbo... View full abstract»

• ### Low Complexity Green Cooperative Cognitive Radio Network With Superior Performance

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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Ensuring total rate maximization whilst keeping Greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) at a minimum in green cooperative cognitive radio networks (GCCRNs) is key to achieving maximum network efficiency. This study employs the lexicographic multiobjective optimization methods to overcome the challenge posed by rate maximization, GHGE minimization, and relay selection in GCCRNs simultaneously. First, throug... View full abstract»

• ### Outage Analysis of Decode-and-Forward Two-Way Relay Selection With Different Coding and Decoding Schemes

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 12
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In this paper, we consider a two-way relay with multirelays. We first review the joint decoding (JD), decoding by parts (DP), bit-level exclusive-or (XOR), and superposition coding (SC) schemes for the two-way decode-and-forward relay (TWDR), and then propose a new TWDR selection scheme for the two mentioned coding methods. In particular, we focus on the outage performance analysis of the relay se... View full abstract»

• ### Parametric Design of Resilient Complex Networked Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 9
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Engineered systems are becoming increasingly complex and interconnected, requiring consideration of their resilience to potential network threats. We therefore explore a parametrically defined network design space to further understand properties and design choices that promote resilience in complex networked systems. This design space focuses on three aspects of a network: its initial topology, a... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

The IEEE Systems Journal provides 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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Università degli Studi di Milano