Staff profile

Professor Hongjian Sun received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Edinburgh (U.K.) 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. He is a Professor (Chair), a Chartered Engineer, 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.I

Professor Sun has been on the Editorial Board of:

• IET Smart Grid as the Editor in Chief
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Guest Editor 2019)
• Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews(Guest Editor 2022)
• 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 2016-2017).

He served as an organizing chair for over 10 workshops/symposium. Recent examples are:

• IEEE ICC'2020 - Smart Grid Communications, Dublin, June 2020.
• IEEE Smartgridcom'2023 - Data Analytics and Computation, Glasgow, Oct-Nov 2023.
• IEEE ICC'2024, June 2024 in Denver, USA.

Research and Projects

Prof. Sun is the Head of Durham Smart Grid Laboratory and leads Smart Grid research activities focused on: (i) demand side management and demand response, and (ii) renewable energy sources integration and virtual power plants. He has an established track record of publishing high quality scientific articles, with over 180 papers in refereed journals and international conferences. He has made contributions to and coauthored the IEEE 1900.6a-2014 Standard, secured 2 granted patents, and published 5 book chapters and 2 books.

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

• H2020 "TESTBED2" project - €1.4M;
• H2020 “TESTBED” project - €882k;
• EPSRC "CHEDDAR" project - £2M;
• EPSRC “TOPMOST” project - £101k;
• EPSRC DecarboN8 project - £1.3M;
• H2020 “SmarterEMC2” project - €3.7M;
• EU ERDF "SWIi" project - £2.5M;
• UK BEIS "USER" project - £1M;
• UK Ofgem/National Grid "CVDT" project -£880k.

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".

• Smart Grid and Smart Energy
• Demand Side Management and Demand Response
• Virtual Power Plant and Energy hub
• Internet of Things and Communications
• Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure and Management

• Future Energy Systems
• Sustainable Infrastructure

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

• 2023: EPSRC Commendation for the top 4% of members of the Peer Review College :
• 2018: Durham University Celebrating Excellence Nomination:
• 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.

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

Chapter in book

• 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.
• Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2016). Relaying Technologies for Smart Grid. In Relay Technologies in Future Cooperative Communication Systems. Krikidis, Ioannis & Zheng, Gan IET Press.
• 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

• Thomas, Huw, Sun, Hongjian & Kazemtabrizi, Behzad (2023), Calculating the Maximum Penetration of Electric Vehicles in Distribution Networks with Renewable Energy and V2G, ISGT ME 2023. Abu Dhabi, UAE, IEEE.
• Deng, Haotian Jiang, Jing Qian, Haiya & Sun, Hongjian (2022), A Microgrid Management System Based on Metaheuristics Particle Swarm Optimization, 6th International Conference on Smart Grid and Smart Cities (ICSGSC 2022). Chengdu, China, IEEE, 126-131.
• Dong, Zihao Jiang, Jing Qian, Haiya & Sun, Hongjian (2022), Demand side management considering household appliances and EV, 6th International Conference on Smart Grid and Smart Cities (ICSGSC 2022). Chengdu, China, IEEE, 171-177.
• Correa-Delval, Martha, Sun, Hongjian, Matthews, Peter C. & Chiu, Wei-Yu (2022), Appliance Scheduling Optimisation Method Using Historical Data in Households with RES Generation and Battery Storage Systems, 2022 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Power Engineering (REPE 2021). Beijing, China, IEEE.
• 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.
• Copsey, Ewan Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2022), Electric Vehicle Battery Pack Design for Mitigating Thermal Runaway Propagation, 2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall). London, IEEE.
• Chen, Wenzhi, Sun, Hongjian, Jiang, Jing, You, Minglei & Piper, William (2022), Protecting privacy in microgrids using federated learning and deep reinforcement learning, IET International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation and Management (APSCOM). Hong Kong, China, The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
• Piper, William, Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2022), Digital Twins for Smart Cities: Case Study and Visualisation via Mixed Reality, 2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall). London, IEEE.
• Hua, Weiqi Jing, Rui Zhou, Yue Zhang, Xi Jiang, Jing & Sun, Hongjian (2022), Blockchain Smart Contracts for Grid Connection Management in Achieving Net Zero Energy Systems, International Conference on Applied Energy 2021 (ICAE 2021). Bangkok, EnerarXiv.
• Correa-Delval, Martha, Sun, Hongjian, Matthews, Peter & Jiang, Jing (2021), Appliance Classification using BiLSTM Neural Networks and Feature Extraction, 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe). Espoo, Finland, IEEE.
• You, Minglei, Zheng, Gan & Sun, Hongjian (2021), A Data Augmentation based DNN Approach for Outage-Constrained Robust Beamforming, IEEE International Conference on Communications. Montreal, Québec, IEEE.
• Alnasser, Aljawharah & Sun, Hongjian (2021), Trust-based Model for Securing Vehicular Networks Against RSU Attacks, IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). Vancouver, BC, IEEE.
• Boyd, Alexander, Sun, Hongjian, Black, Mary & Jesson, Simon (2021), Short-term load forecasting using artificial neural networks and social media data, CIRED 2021 - The 26th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution. Online Conference, IET.
• 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.
• 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). Tempe, AZ, IEEE.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC2017). Qingdao, China, IEEE, Piscataway, 1-5.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Li, Dan, Hua, Weiqi, Sun, Hongjian & Chiu, Wei-Yu (2017), Multiobjective optimization for carbon market scheduling based on behavior learning, 142: Elsevier, 2089-2094.
• 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.
• 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.
• You, Minglei & Sun, Hongjian (2016), Realising energy-aware communication over fading channels under QoS constraints, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband. Nanjing, China, IEEE, 1-4.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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., Zhao, N. & Wang, C.-X. (2012), Green Data Transmission in Power Line Communications, IEEE GlobeCom'12. Anaheim, CA, USA, Anaheim CA, 3702-3706
• 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.
• 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 & 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 (2011), Adaptive Compressive Spectrum Sensing in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE APWCS'11. Singapore, 1-5.
• 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, 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

• Chiu, Wei-Yu, Sun, Hongjian, Thompson, John, Nakayama, Kiyoshi & Zhang, Shunqing (2017). IoT and Information Processing in Smart Energy Applications. IEEE Communications Magazine, 55 (10): IEEE.
• Chiu, Wei-Yu, Sun, Hongjian, Thompson, John, Nakayama, Kiyoshi & Zhang, Shunqing (2016). Integrated communications, control, and computing technologies for enabling autonomous smart grid. IEEE Communications Magazine, 54 (12): IEEE.
• Li, Shancang, Sun, Hongjian, Nallanathan, Arumugam, Xu, Li, Zhao, Shanshan & Sun, Qindong (2014). Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 10 (8): Sage & Hindawi Publishing Corporation.

Journal Article

• Hernandez Cedillo, Monica, Sun, Hongjian, Jiang, Jing & Cao, Yue (2022). Dynamic Pricing and Control for EV Charging Stations with Solar Generation. Applied Energy 326: 119920.
• Peng, Dajian, Xiao, Hao, Pei, Wei, Sun, Hongjian & Ye, Shuang (2022). A novel deep learning based peer‐to‐peer transaction method for prosumers under two‐stage market environment. IET Smart Grid 5(6): 430-439.
• 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 161: 112308.
• Hua, Weiqi, Jiang, Jing, Sun, Hongjian, Teng, Fei & Strbac, Goran (2022). Consumer-centric decarbonization framework using Stackelberg game and Blockchain. Applied Energy 309: 118384.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Thompson, Myles J., Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2022). Blockchain-Based Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Method. CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems 8(5): 1318-1326.
• Alnasser, Aljawharah Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2022). QoS-Balancing Algorithm for Optimal Relay Selection in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 23(7): 8223-8233.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sun, Hongjian, Chiu, W.-Y. & Nallanathan, A. (2012). Adaptive Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Wideband Cognitive Radios. IEEE Communications Letters 16(11): 1812-1815.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Other (Print)

• 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