hongjian-sun

Professor Hongjian Sun

Professor

CEng, PhD, SMIEEE, MIET, FHEA

Affiliations
Affiliation	Room number	Telephone
Professor in the Department of Engineering	E378 (Higginson)	+44 (0) 191 33 42478
Member of the Centre for Communications Systems
Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute		+44 (0) 191 33 42478

Biography

Professor Hongjian Sun received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Edinburgh (U.K.) in 2011 and then took postdoctoral positions at King’s College London (U.K.) and Princeton University (USA). Since April 2013, he has been with the Department of Engineering at the University of Durham (U.K.) as Professor (Chair) since July 2020, Associate Professor (Reader) in 2017-2020, and Assistant Professor in 2013-2017. He is a Fellow of Durham Energy Institute, and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy.

There are a couple of PhD vacancies in his research group, please make contact to know more information.

Professor Sun has been involved in a number of activities with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): He is a Senior Member of the IEEE; He is serving (or served) as a technical program committee (TPC) member for many IEEE flagship conferences, e.g., IEEE ICC (2010-now), IEEE Globecom (2011-now), IEEE SmartGridCom (2015-now), and IEEE VTC (2011-now); He is a peer-reviewer for a number of IEEE prestigious journals and was nominated as an Exemplary Reviewer by IEEE Communications Letters in both 2011 and 2012; He has been with the IEEE 1900.6 Standards Working Groups on the Advanced Radio Systems since 2011.

Professor Sun has been on the Editorial Board of:

IET Smart Grid as the Editor in Chief;
Journal of Communications and Networks as an Editor;
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking as an Associate Editor (2015-2018);
IEEE Communications Magazine (Guest Editor for Feature Topics: Integrated Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Enabling Autonomous Smart Grid, 2016, Internet of Things and Information Processing in Smart Energy Applications, 2017)
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Guest Editor for special issue: Advances and Challenges in Satellite-Based Industrial Internet-of-Things, 2019)
Energies (Guest Editor for 2 Special Issues: Wireless Power Transfer, 2016, and From Smart Metering to Demand Side Management, 2017)
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Guest Editor for 2 Special Issues: Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, 2014 and 2016).

Additionally, he served (is serving) as an organizing chair for the following workshops/symposium:

IEEE SmartGridCom 2018 - Control and Operation Symposium, Aalborg, Denmark, 29 October -1 November 2018.
IEE ICC'2020 - Smart Grid Communications, Dublin, June 2020.
1st Workshop on Integrating Communications, Control, Computing Technologies for Smart Grid (ICT4SG), Glasgow, U.K., 11 May 2015.
Workshop on Communications Technologies for Smart Grid, Shanghai, China, 16 August 2015.
1st Workshop on Connecting All Things for Enabling Smart Cities (CONTEST), Nanjing, China, 15–18 May 2016.
2nd Workshop on ICT4SG, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23-27 May 2016.
2nd Workshop on CONTEST, Sydney, Australia, 4–7 June 2017.
Green and Sustainable Communications and Network Computing symposium in WiMob Conference, New York, USA, 17-19 Oct 2016.
3rd Workshop on ICT4SG, Paris, France, 25 May 2017.
4th Workshop on ICT4SG, Kansas City, MO, USA, 24 May 2018.
3rd Workshop on CONTEST, Beijing China, 16-18 August, 2018.

Research and Projects

Prof. Sun's research mainly focuses on: (i) smart grid communications, (ii) demand side management and demand response, and (iii) renewable energy sources integration. He has an established track record of publishing high quality scientific articles: He has published over 120 papers in refereed journals and international conferences; He has made contributions to and coauthored the IEEE 1900.6a-2014 Standard; In addition, he has published 5 book chapters, and edited 2 books.

Prof. Sun is Principle Investigator or Co-Investigator on a number of projects, with funding successes from the EU H2020, EU ERDF, UK EPSRC, UK BEIS, Innovate UK, China NSF, and industry. These projects include:

H2020 “TESTBED” project;
EPSRC “TOPMOST” project;
EPSRC DecarboN8 project;
H2020 “SmarterEMC2” project;
EU ERDF "SWIi" project;
UK BEIS "USER" project;
GCRF Networking "Seednet" project.

In the past, he was the key researcher for EPSRC project "Robust Intelligent Lamp Post (ILP) Sensor Networks for Energy Efficient Transportation Systems" and Korean ETRI project "Cognitive Radio Technology".

Prof. Sun is currently supervising (or line managing) over 10 Postdoc Research Associate and PhD students. He also leads Smart Grid research activities and is Head of Durham Smart Grid Laboratory, which consists of 2 Real Time Digital Simulators (RTDS Novacor nad RTDS PB5), a PV emulation system, a wind turbine emulation system, an Electrical Energy Storage, an Electric Vehicle and charging station, an Air Source Heat Pump, smart meters, wireless sensor networks testing kits, and a software-defined radio platform (inc. 5 USRPs).

Research interests

Smart Grid and Smart Energy
Demand Side Management and Demand Response
Virtual Power Plant and Energy hub
Internet of Things and e-Health
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure and Management

Research groups

Future Energy Systems
Sustainable Infrastructure

Research Projects

Smarter Grid: Empowering SG Market Actors through Information and Communication Technologies

Awarded Grants

2020: EU H2020 MSCA-RISE TESTBED2 Project: "Testing and Evaluating Sophisticated information and communication Technologies for enaBling scalablE smart griD Deployment
2020: Testing Voltage Levels In Legacy Appliances(£34569.00 from )
2019: DecarboN8(£26954.00 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
2019: Ubiquitous Storage Empowering Response (USER) - phase 2(£144237.97 from )
2018: Smart Energy Exchange for Decarbonising Energy Systems Research Network (SeedNet)(£14870.00 from Academy of Medical Sciences)
2017: Bio-inspired self-healing strategies triggered by big-data anomalies in systems exhibiting complex behaviour to enhance resilience(£6000.00 from Epsrc)
2017: Electrical and thermal storage optimisation in a virtual power plant(£52741.00 from Innovate UK)
2017: H2020-TESTBED: Testing and Evaluating Sophisticated Information and Communication Technologies for enabling a Smarter Grid(£158692.09 from European Commission)
2017: H2020-TESTBED: Testing and Evaluating Sophisticated Information and Communication Technologies for enabling a Smarter Grid(£20769.23 from European Commission)
2017: Solid Wall Insulation Innovation(£51393.00 from )
2016: Towards Joint Power-Communication System Modelling and Optimisation for Smart(£101098.80 from Epsrc)
2015: Smarter Grid: Empowering SG Market Actors through information and Communication Technologies (Smarter EMC2)(£298004.47 from European Commission)

Esteem Indicators

2018: Durham University Celebrating Excellence Nomination:
2017: Invited Speaker in 15th LUCI Anual General Meeting, Durham, November 2017:
2017: Written evidence to the Parliament EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee:
A response to the Parliament ;EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee's inquiry on Brexit: energy security.
2016: Written evidence to the Parliament Energy and Climate Change Committee: A response to the Parliament Energy and Climate Change Committee's Low carbon network infrastructure inquiry.
2015: Carbon Trust Expert Interview: Dr. Sun had Expert Interview by Carbon Trust in March 2015 in the field of demand response technologies. ;
2015: Lead Microgrid Researcher: Dr. Sun has been invited to attend the Microgrid Symposiums 2015 (by invitation only) as a lead microgrid researcher.
2013: Fringe Event at the Liberal Democrat Party : Dr. Sun discussed Smart Grid technologies with Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ed Davey, Stephen Gilbert MP, and Jim Sutherland, Engineering Director at ScottishPower Energy Networks, at the fringe event at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Glasgow in September 2013. ;

Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

Engineering: Communications: Smart Grids
Engineering: Energy systems: Smart Grids
Engineering: Communications: Cognitive Radio
Engineering: Communications: Cooperative Communications
Science: Education, industry & the community: Smart Metering

Publications

Chapter in book

Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2016). Relaying Technologies for Smart Grid. In Relay Technologies in Future Cooperative Communication Systems. Krikidis, Ioannis & Zheng, Gan IET Press.
Li, Dan, Chiu, Wei-Yu & Sun, Hongjian (2016). Demand Side Management in Microgrid Control Systems. In Microgrid: Advanced Control Methods and Renewable Energy System Integration. Mahmoud, Magdi S. Elsevier.
Ahmad, Bashar I., Sun, Hongjian, Ling, Cong & Nallanathan, A. (2014). Paving A Wider Way for Multimedia Over Cognitive Radios: An Overview of Wideband Spectrum Sensing Algorithms. In Multimedia Over Cognitive Radio Networks: Algorithms, Protocols, and Experiments. Hu, Fei & Kumar, Sunil Taylor & Francis LLC, CRC Press.
Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, Arumugam & Jiang, Jing (2013). Sub-Nyquist Sampling and Compressed Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks. In Compressed Sensing & Sparse Filtering. Carmi, Avishy Y., Mihaylova, Lyudmila S. & Godsill, Simon J. Springer Press. 149-185.

Conference Paper

Zhan, Qiyan, Liu, Nan, Pan, Zhiwen & Sun, Hongjian (2022), Statistical Power Grid Observability under NOMA-based Communication Constraints, 2022 3rd International Conference on Wireless Communications and Big Data. Qingdao, China, IEEE Computer Society.
Zhan, Qiyan, Liu, Nan, Pan, Zhiwen & Sun, Hongjian (2022), Statistical Power Grid Observability under Finite Blocklength, 2022 3rd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things. Qingdao, China, IEEE.
Mackie, Max, Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2021), Reinforcement Learning Based Load Balancing for Geographically Distributed Data centres, IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe). Espoo, Finland.
Alnasser, Aljawharah & Sun, Hongjian (2021), Trust-based Model for Securing Vehicular Networks Against RSU Attacks, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Virtual.
Boyd, Alexander, Sun, Hongjian, Black, Mary & Jesson, Simon (2021), Short-term load forecasting using artificial neural networks and social media data, CIRED 2021 Conference. Virtual, IET.
Correa-Delval, Martha, Sun, Hongjian, Matthews, Peter & Jiang, Jing (2021), Appliance Classification using BiLSTM Neural Networks and Feature Extraction, IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe). Espoo, Finland.
You, Minglei, Zheng, Gan & Sun, Hongjian (2021), A Data Augmentation based DNN Approach for Outage-Constrained Robust Beamforming, IEEE International Conference on Communications. Virtual / Montreal.
Hua, Weiqi Jing, Rui Zhou, Yue Zhang, Xi Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2021), Blockchain Smart Contracts for Grid Connection Management in Achieving Net Zero Energy Systems, International Conference on Applied Energy 2021. Bangkok, Elsevier.
Meinke, Robin-Joshua, Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2020), Optimising Demand and Bid Matching in a Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Model, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). Dublin, Ireland, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-6.
Almazroa, Areej & Sun, Hongjian (2020), An Internet of Things (IoT) Homecare Management System Using Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification, 8th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things (WSN-IoT'2021). Paris, IEEE.
Alnasser, Aljawharah Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2019), Multi-Metric QoS-balancing Relay Selection Algorithm in V2X Communications, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) Workshops. Waikoloa, HI, USA, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-6.
Hernandez Cedillo, Monica & Sun, Hongjian (2020), Data-driven Pricing and Control for Low Carbon V2G Charging Station with Balancing Services, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm). Virtual.
Bisu, Anas, Gallant, Andrew, Sun, Hongjian Purvis, Alan & Brigham, K. (2019), Experimental Performance Evaluation of TCP over an Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Network Environment, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2019). Tangier Morocco, IEEE, 781-786.
You, Minglei You, Hua, Weiqi, Shahbazi, Mahmoud & Sun, Hongjian (2018), Energy Hub Scheduling Method with Voltage Stability Considerations, The Seventh IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2018). Beijing, China, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 196-200.
Bisu, Anas A., Gallant, Andrew, Sun, Hongjian, Brigham, Katharine & Purvis, Alan (2018), Telemedicine via Satellite: Improving Access to Healthcare for Remote Rural Communities in Africa, IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2018 (HTC’18). Colombo, Sri Lanka, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-6.
Alamazroa, Areej & Sun, Hongjian (2019), An Internet of Things (IoT) Management System for Improving Homecare - A Case Study, International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC'19). Istanbul, Turkey, IEEE.
Alnasser, Aljawharah & Sun, Hongjian (2019), Global Roaming Trust-based Model for V2X Communications, INFOCOM 2019 Workshops: The Third IEEE International Workshop on the Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics of Mobile Systems and Networks (MobiSec 2019). Paris France, IEEE.
Stacpoole, Kitty, Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2019), Smart Scheduling of Household Appliances to Decarbonise Domestic Energy Consumption, IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China Workshops. Changchun, China, IEEE, 216-221.
Hua, Weiqi & Sun, Hongjian (2019), A Blockchain-Based Peer-to-Peer Trading Scheme Coupling Energy and Carbon Markets, 2019 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST). Porto, Portugal., IEEE.
Heron, John & Sun, Hongjian (2019), Smart Electric Vehicle Charging with Ideal and Practical Communications in Smart Grids, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom). HI, USA, IEEE.
Aravinthan, Visvakumar, Balachandran, Thanatheepan, Ben-Idris, Mohammed, Fei, Wanghao, Heidari-Kapourchali, Mohammad, Hettiarachchige-Don, Anton, Jiang, John N., Lei, Hangtian, Liu, Chen-Ching, Mitra, Joydeep, Ni, Ming, Papic, Milorad, Parvania, Masood, Sephary, Mojtaba, Singh, Channan, Srivastava, Anurag, Stefanov, Alexandru, Sun, Hongjian & Tindemans, Simon (2018), Reliability Modeling Considerations for Emerging Cyber–Physical Power Systems, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS). Boise, Idaho, IEEE, Piscataway, 324-330.
Bisu, Anas, Purvis, Alan, Brigham, Katharine & Sun, Hongjian (2018), A Framework for End-to-End Latency Measurements in a Satellite Network Environment, IEEE International Conference on Communications 2018. Kansas City, MO, USA, IEEE, Piscataway, 5130-5135.
Alnasser, Aljawharah & Sun, Hongjian (2018), Performance Analysis of Behavior-based Solutions in Vehicular Networks, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018). Honolulu, HI, USA, IEEE, Piscataway, 736-741.
Liu, Qitao, Sun, Hongjian & Matthews, Peter (2017), Enhancing Dynamic Voltage Stability in Power Systems with Distributed Generations, 2017 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm). Dresden, German, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 218-222.
Qiu, Yu, Zhang, Haijun, Long, Keping, Sun, Hongjian, Li, Xuebin & Leung, Victor (2018), Improving Handover of 5G Networks by Network Function Virtualization and Fog Computing (Invited Paper), 2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC2017). Qingdao, China, IEEE, Piscataway, 1-5.
You, Minglei, Liu, Qitao, Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2017), Power Grid Observability Redundancy Analysis under Communication Constraints, 2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC). Qingdao, China, IEEE, 1-5.
Heron, John & Sun, Hongjian (2017), Dynamic Time and Power Allocation for Opportunistic Energy Efficient Cooperative Relay, IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference. Toronto, ON, Canada, IEEE, Piscataway, 1-5.
Li, Dan, Hua, Weiqi, Sun, Hongjian & Chiu, Wei-Yu (2017), Multiobjective optimization for carbon market scheduling based on behavior learning, 142: Elsevier, 2089-2094.
You, Minglei, Liu, Qitao & Sun, Hongjian (2018), A Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid Testbed Based on Software Defined Radio and Real Time Digital Simulator, IEEE International Conference on Communications. Kansas City, MO, USA, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ.
Touya, Eduardo; & Sun, Hongjian (2018), Managing Distributed Generation in a Microgrid with Privacy Preservation, International Congress of Electric Distribution (CIDEL 2018). Buenos Aires City, Argentina.
Hua, Weiqi, Li, Dan, Sun, Hongjian, Matthews, Peter & Meng, Fanlin (2018), Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets, 2nd International Conference on Power and Renewable Energy. Chengdu, China.
Liu, Qitao Liu, You, Minglei, Sun, Hongjian & Matthews, Peter (2017), L-index sensitivity based voltage stability enhancement, 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017). Sydney, IEEE, Piscataway, 1-5.
Gosselin, Daniel, Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2017), Household Level Distributed Energy Management System integrating Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Vehicles, IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017). Sydney, IEEE, Piscataway, 1-5.
Li, Dan, Sun, Hongjian & Chiu, Wei-Yu (2017), Achieving low carbon emission using Smart Grid technologies, 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017). Sydney, IEEE, Piscataway, 1-5.
Hua, Weiqi, Li, Dan, Sun, Hongjian & Matthews, Peter (2017), Unit Commitment in Achieving Low Carbon Smart Grid Environment with Virtual Power Plant, 2017 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). Wuxi, China, IEEE, Piscataway, 1-6.
Brooks Benjamin, Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2017), Incorporating User Utility in a Smart Microgrid with Distributed Generation and Elastic Demand, in Jamalipour, Abbas & Papadias, Constantinos eds, IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2017). Paris, IEEE, Piscataway, 1117-1122.
Xu, Jiangjiao & Sun, Hongjian (2017), ADMM-based Coordinated Decentralized Voltage Control Meets Practical Communication Systems, IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC'17): Bridging People, Communities, and Cultures. Paris, France, IEEE, Piscataway, 906-910.
Xu, Jiangjiao, Sun, Hongjian & Dent, Chris (2016), The Coordinated Voltage Control Meets Imperfect Communication System, in Gubina, Andrej Ferdo eds, 2016 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe),. Ljubljana, Slovenia, IEEE, Piscataway, 212-217.
Li, Dan, Sun, Hongjian & Chiu, Wei-Yu (2016), A Layered Approach for Enabling Demand Side Management in Smart Grid, 2016 International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS). Ansan, Korea, IEEE, 54-59.
You, Minglei & Sun, Hongjian (2016), Realising Energy-Aware Communication over Fading Channels under QoS Constraints (Invited Paper), IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband. Nanjing, China, IEEE, 1-4.
Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian & Chiu, Wei-yu (2016), Energy Efficient Massive MIMO System Design for Smart Grid Communications, IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 337-341.
Mou, Xiaolin, Groling, Oliver, Gallant, Andrew & Sun, Hongjian (2016), Energy Efficient and Adaptive Design for Wireless Power Transfer in Electric Vehicles, 2016 IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2016-Spring. Nanjing, China, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-5.
Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2016), Performance Assessment of Distributed Communication Architectures in Smart Grid, 2016 IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2016-Spring. Nanjing, China, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1-5.
You, Minglei, Mou, Xiaolin & Sun, Hongjian (2015), Effective capacity analysis of smart grid communication networks, 20th IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks. Guildford, UK, IEEE, University of Surrey, 196-200.
Mou, Xiaolin & Sun, Hongjian (2015), Wireless Power Transfer: Survey and Roadmap, 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2015-Spring. Glasgow, UK, IEEE, Glasgow, 1-5.
Chiu, Wei-yu, Sun, Hongjian & Poor, H. Vincent (2015), An H∞ design for dynamic pricing in the smart grid, in Soh, Azura Che, Selamat, Hazlina, Rahman, Ribhan Zafira Abdul, Ishak, Asnor Juraiza, Ahmad, Siti Anom, Ramli, Hafiz Rashidi Harun & Faudzi, Ahmad Athif Mohd eds, 2015 10th Asian Control Conference (ASCC). Sabah, Malaysia, IEEE, Sabah, 1-6.
Zhao, Nan, Qu, Tianyi, Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, A. & Yin, Hongxi (2013), Frequency Scheduling Based Interference Alignment for Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE Globecom'13. Atlanta GA, IEEE, Atlanta GA, 1-5.
Chiu, W.-Y., Sun, Hongjian & Poor, H. V. (2012), Robust Power Flow Control in Smart Grids with Fluctuating Effects, IEEE INFOCOM'12. Orlando, Florida, USA, Orlando FL, 2678-2683.
Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, A., Jiang, Jing & Poor, H. V. (2012), Compressive Autonomous Sensing (CASe) for Wideband Spectrum Sensing, IEEE ICC'12. Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa, 5953-5957.
Sun Hongjian, Nallanathan, A., Zhao, N. & Wang, C.-X. (2012), Green Data Transmission in Power Line Communications, IEEE GlobeCom'12. Anaheim, CA, USA, Anaheim CA, 3702-3706
Chiu, W.-Y., Sun, Hongjian & Poor, H. V. (2012), Demand-side energy storage system management in smart grid, Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2012 IEEE Third International Conference on. Tainan, Taiwan, IEEE, Tainan, 73-78.
Zhao, N., Yin, H., Yu, F. R. & Sun, Hongjian (2012), Interference Alignment through Antenna Switching to Improve Quality of Service in Wireless Networks, IEEE ICCC'12. Beijing, China, Beijing, 307-311.
Zhao, N., Yu, F. R., Sun Hongjian & Nallanathan, A. (2012), An Energy-Efficient Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme for Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE GlobeCom'12. Anaheim, CA, USA, IEEE, Anaheim CA, 3600-3604
Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, A. & Jiang, Jing (2012), Improving the Energy Efficiency of Power Line Communications by Spectrum Sensing, IEEE ICACCI'12. Chennai, India, Chennai, 758-762.
Zhao, N., Yu, F. R., Sun, Hongjian, Yin, H. & Nallanathan, A. (2012), Interference Alignment Based on Channel Prediction with Delayed Channel State, IEEE GlobeCom'12. Anaheim, CA, USA, Anaheim CA, 4244-4248
Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, A., Jiang, Jing & Wang, C.-X. (2011), Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Diversity Reception in Cognitive Radios, IEEE CHINACOM'11. Harbin, China, Harbin, 216-220.
Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, A., Jiang, Jing, Laurenson, D. I., Wang, C.-X. & Poor, H. V. (2011), A Novel Wideband Spectrum Sensing System for Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE GLOBECOM'11. Houston, Texas, USA, Houston TX, 1-6.
Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, A. & Jiang, Jing (2011), Adaptive Compressive Spectrum Sensing in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE APWCS'11. Singapore, 1-5.
Sun, Hongjian, Laurenson, D. I. & Thompson, J. S. (2009), Cooperative Compressive Spectrum Sensing by Sub-Nyquist Sampling, IEEE UKIWCWS'09. IIT Delhi, India, IIT Delhi, 1-6.
Sun, Hongjian, Laurenson, D. I., Thompson, J. S. & Wang, C.-X. (2008), A Novel Centralized Network for Sensing Spectrum in Cognitive Radio, IEEE ICC'08. Beijing, China, Beijing, 4186-4190.

Edited book

Sun, Hongjian, Wang, Chao & Ahmad, Bashar (2016). From Internet of Things to Smart Cities: Enabling Technologies. Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series. Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Edited Journal

Journal Article

Hua, Weiqi, Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian, Teng, Fei & Strbac, Goran (2022). Consumer-centric decarbonization framework using Stackelberg game and Blockchain. Applied Energy 309: 118384.
Hua, Weiqi Xiao, Hao Pei, Wei Chiu, Wei-Yu, Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian & Matthews, Peter (2022). Transactive Energy and Flexibility Provision in Multi-microgrids using Stackelberg Game. CSEE JOURNAL OF POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS
Hua, Weiqi, Chen, Ying, Qadrdan, Meysam, Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian & Wu, Jianzhong (2022). Applications of blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies for enabling prosumers in smart grids: A review. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews
Hua, Weiqi, Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian, Tonello, Andrea, Qadrdan, Meysam & Wu, Jianzhong (2022). Data-driven prosumer-centric energy scheduling using convolutional neural networks. Applied Energy 308: 118361.
You, Minglei, Wang, Qian, Sun, Hongjian, Castro, Ivan & Jiang, Jing (2022). Digital Twins based Day-ahead Integrated Energy System Scheduling under Load and Renewable Energy Uncertainties. Applied Energy 305: 117899.
Heron, John W. Sun, Hongjian Alizadeh‐Mousavi, Omid & Crossland, Andrew (2021). Key performance‐cost tradeoffs in smart electric vehicle charging with distributed generation. IET Smart Grid 4(6): 561-581.
Thomas, Huw, Sun, Hongjian & Kazemtabrizi, Behzad (2021). Closest Energy Matching: Improving peer‐to‐peer energy trading auctions for EV owners. IET Smart Grid 4(4): 445-460.
You, Minglei, Zheng, Gan, Chen, Tianrui, Sun, Hongjian & Chen, Kwang-Cheng (2021). Delay Guaranteed Joint User Association and Channel Allocation for Fog Radio Access Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 20(6): 3723-3733.
Thompson, Myles J. Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2021). Blockchain-Based Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Method. CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
Alnasser, Aljawharah Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2021). QoS-Balancing Algorithm for Optimal Relay Selection in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Su, Yinjie, Sun, Hongjian, Zhang, Zhenkai, Lian, Zhuxian Xie, Zhibin & Wang, Yajun (2020). Covert Communication with Relay Selection. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Mou, Xiaolin, Gladwin, Daniel T, Zhao, Rui, Sun, Hongjian & Yang, Zhile (2020). Coil Design for Wireless Vehicle-to-Vehicle Charging Systems. IEEE Access 8: 172723-172733.
Hua, Weiqi, Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian & Wu, Jianzhong (2020). A Blockchain Based Peer-to-Peer Trading Framework Integrating Energy and Carbon Markets. Applied Energy 279: 115539.
Alnasser, Aljawharah Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2020). Recommendation-based Trust Model for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X). IEEE Internet of Things Journal 7(1): 440-450.
Hua, Weiqi, Li, Dan, Sun, Hongjian & Matthews, Peter (2020). Stackelberg Game-theoretic Model for Low Carbon Energy Market Scheduling. IET Smart Grid 3(1): 31-41.
Mou, Xiaolin, Zhang, Yingji, Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2019). Achieving Low Carbon Emission for Dynamically Charging Electric Vehicles through Renewable Energy Integration. IEEE Access 7(4): 118876-118888.
Mou, Xiaolin, Gladwin, Daniel T. Zhao, Rui & Sun, Hongjian (2019). Survey on Magnetic Resonant Coupling Wireless Power Transfer Technology for Electric Vehicle Charging. IET Power Electronics 12(12): 3005-3020.
Cao, Yue, Tao, Jiang, Kaiwartya, O., Sun, Hongjian, Zhou, Huan & Wang, Ran (2021). Toward Pre-empted EV Charging Recommendation Through V2V Based Reservation System. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 51(5): 3026 - 3039.
Humfrey, Harry, Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2019). Dynamic Charging of Electric Vehicles Integrating Renewable Energy: A Multi-Objective Optimisation Problem. IET Smart Grid 2(2): 250-259.
Alnasser, Aljawharah Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2019). Cyber Security Challenges and Solutions for V2X Communications: A Survey. Computer Networks 151: 52-67.
Chang, Hsuan-Hao, Chiu, Wei-Yu, Sun, Hongjian & Chen, Chia-Ming (2019). User-Centric Multiobjective Approach to Privacy Preservation and Energy Cost Minimization in Smart Home. IEEE Systems Journal 13(1): 1030-1041.
Pei, Wei, Ma, Xin, Deng, Wei, Chen, Xinhe, Sun, Hongjian & Li, Dan (2019). Industrial Multi-Energy and Production Management Scheme in Cyber-Physical Environments: A Case Study in a Battery Manufacturing Plant. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications 4(1): 13-21.
Xu, Jiangjiao, Sun, Hongjian & Dent, Chris (2019). ADMM-based Distributed OPF Problem Meets Stochastic Communication Delay. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 10(5): 5046-5056.
Hua, Weiqi, Li, Dan, Sun, Hongjian, Matthews, Peter & Meng, Fanlin (2018). Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets. International Journal of Smart Grid and Clean Energy 7(4): 231-239.
You, Minglei, Jiang, Jing, Tonello, Andrea M. Doukoglou, Tilemachos & Sun, Hongjian (2018). On Statistical Power Grid Observability under Communication Constraints. IET Smart Grid 1(2): 40-47.
Heron, John W., Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian, Gezerlis, Velissarios & Doukoglou, Tilemachos (2018). Demand-Response Round-Trip Latency of IoT Smart Grid Network Topologies. IEEE Access 6: 22930-22937.
Hill, Ellen & Sun, Hongjian (2018). Double Threshold Spectrum Sensing Methods in Spectrum-Scarce Vehicular Communications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14(9): 4072-4080.
Li, Dan, Sun, Hongjian, Chiu, Wei-Yu & Poor, Vincent (2018). Multiobjective Optimization for Demand Side Management in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14(4): 1482-1490.
Alnasser, Aljawharah & Sun, Hongjian (2017). A Fuzzy Logic Trust Model for Secure Routing in Smart Grid Networks. IEEE Access 5: 17896-17903.
You, Minglei, Liu, Qitao & Sun, Hongjian (2017). New communication strategy for spectrum sharing enabled smart grid cyber-physical system. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications 2(3): 136-142.
Mou, Xiaolin & Sun, Hongjian (2017). Analysis of Multiple Segmented Transmitters Design in Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles Charging. Electronics Letters 53(14): 941-943.
Mou, Xiaolin, Groling, Oliver & Sun, Hongjian (2017). Energy Efficient and Adaptive Design for Wireless Power Transfer in Electric Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 64(9): 7250-7260.
Li, Yong, Mai, Ruikun, Lin, Tianren, Sun, Hongjian & He, Zhengyou (2017). A Novel WPT System Based on Dual Transmitters and Dual Receivers for High Power Applications: Analysis, Design and Implementation. Energies 10(2): 174.
You, Minglei, Sun, Hongjian, Jiang, Jing & Zhang, Jiayi (2017). Unified Framework for the Effective Rate Analysis of Wireless Communication Systems over MISO Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications 65(4): 1775-1785.
Yang, Zhutian, Ping, Shuyu, Sun, Hongjian & Aghvami, A. Hamid (2017). CRB-RPL: A Receiver-based Routing Protocol for Communications in Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 66(7): 5985-5994.
You, Minglei, Sun, Hongjian, Jiang, Jing & Zhang, Jiayi (2016). Effective Rate Analysis in Weibull Fading Channels. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 5(4): 340-343.
Yang, Zhutian, Qiu, Wei, Sun, Hongjian & Nallanathan, Arumugam (2016). Robust Radar Emitter Recognition Based on the Three-Dimensional Distribution Feature and Transfer Learning. Sensors 16(3): 289.
Zhao, Nan, Yu, F. Richard, Sun, Hongjian & Li, Ming (2016). Adaptive Power Allocation Schemes for Spectrum Sharing in Interference Alignment (IA)-Based Cognitive Radio Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 65(5): 3700-3714.
Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian, Baglee, David & Poor, H. Vincent (2016). Achieving Autonomous Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 65(3): 1281-1291.
Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, Arumugam Cui, Shuguang & Wang, Cheng-Xiang (2016). Cooperative Wideband Spectrum Sensing over Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 65(3): 1382-1394.
Chiu, Wei-Yu, Sun, Hongjian & Poor, H. Vincent (2015). A Multiobjective Approach to Multimicrogrid System Design. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 6(5): 2263-2272.
Zhao, Nan, Yu, F. Richard, Sun, Hongjian, Yin, Hongxi, Nallanathan, A. & Wang, Guan (2015). Interference alignment with delayed channel state information and dynamic AR-model channel prediction in wireless networks. Wireless Networks 21(4): 1227-1242.
Zhao, Nan, Yu, Richard & Sun, Hongjian (2015). Adaptive Energy-Efficient Power Allocation in Green Interference Alignment Based Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 64(9): 4268-4281.
Jiang, Jing, Thompson, John S., Sun, Hongjian & Grant, Peter M. (2013). Practical Analysis of Codebook Design and Frequency Offset Estimation for Virtual-MIMO Systems. IET Communications 7(6): 585-594.
Chiu, W.-Y., Sun, Hongjian & Poor, H. V. (2013). Energy Imbalance Management Using a Robust Pricing Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 4(2): 896-904.
Sun Hongjian, Nallanathan, A., Wang, C.-X. & Chen, Y.-F. (2013). Wideband Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey. IEEE Wireless Communications 20(2): 74-81.
Zhao, Nan, Yu, F. Richard, Sun, Hongjian, Arumugam, Nallanathan & Yin, Hongxi (2013). A Novel Interference Alignment Scheme Based on Sequential Antenna Switching in Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communicaitons 12(10): 5008-5021.
Yang, Z., Wu, Z., Yin, Z., Quan, T. & Sun, Hongjian (2013). Hybrid Radar Emitter Recognition Based on Rough k-means Classifier and Relevance Vector Machine. Sensors 13(1): 848-864.
Zhao, N., Yu, Fei R., Sun, Hongjian & Arumugam, Nallanathan (2013). Energy-efficient cooperative spectrum sensing schemes for cognitive radio networks. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2013: 120.
Sun, Hongjian, Chiu, W.-Y., Jiang, J., Nallanathan, A. & Poor, H. V. (2012). Wideband Spectrum Sensing with Sub-Nyquist Sampling in Cognitive Radios. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 60(11): 6068-6073.
Sun, Hongjian, Chiu, W.-Y. & Nallanathan, A. (2012). Adaptive Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Wideband Cognitive Radios. IEEE Communications Letters 16(11): 1812-1815.
Sun, Hongjian, Tan, Bo, Jiang, Jing, Thompson, John S., Nallanathan, Arumugam & Poor, H. Vincent (2012). Relaying Technologies for Smart Grid Communications. IEEE Wireless Communications 19(6): 52-59.
Yin, Z., Kuang, Y., Sun, Hongjian, Wu, Z. & Tang, W. (2012). A Hybrid Multiuser Detection Algorithm for Outer Space DS-UWB Ad-hoc Network with Strong Narrowband Interference. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems 6(5): 1316-1332.
Jiang, Jing, Thompson, John S., Sun, Hongjian & Grant, Peter M. (2012). Performance Assessment of Virtual Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems with Compress-and-Forward Cooperation. IET Communications 6(11): 1456-1465.
Wu, Z., Yang, Z., Sun, Hongjian, Yin, Z. & Nallanathan, A. (2012). Hybrid Radar Emitter Recognition Based on Rough K-Means Classifier and SVM. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2012: 198.
Yin, Z., Zong, Z., Sun, Hongjian, Wu, Z. & Yang, Z. (2012). A complexity-performance-balanced multiuser detector based on artificial fish swarm algorithm for DS-UWB systems in the AWGN and multipath environments. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2012: 229.
Jiang J., Thompson, John S. & Sun, Hongjian (2011). A Singular-Value-Based Adaptive Modulation and Cooperation Scheme for Virtual-MIMO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 60(6): 2495-2504.
Zhao, Nan & Sun, Hongjian (2011). Robust Power Control for Cognitive Radio in Spectrum Underlay Networks. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems 5(7): 1214-1229.
Sun, Hongjian, Laurenson, Dave I. & Wang, Cheng-Xiang (2010). Computationally Tractable Model of Energy Detection Performance over Slow Fading Channels. IEEE Communications Letters 14(10): 924-926.

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Sun, Hongjian & et. al (2014). IEEE Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Other Advanced Radio Communication Systems - Amendment 1: Procedures, Protocols, and Data Archive Enhanced Interfaces. 1900.6a-2014 - IEEE Standard 1-52.
Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, A., Holland, O. & Aghvami, H. (2012). IEEE Standards 1900.6a: Functional Requirements for Wideband Spectrum Sensing. IEEE Standard 1900.6a for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and other Advanced Radio Communication Systems Amendment: Procedures, Protocols and Data Archive Enhanced Interfaces