Staff profile

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). 

• 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

• Future Energy Systems
• Sustainable Infrastructure

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

• 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. ;

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

• 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.
• Alnasser, Aljawharah & Sun, Hongjian (2021), Trust-based Model for Securing Vehicular Networks Against RSU Attacks, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Virtual.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 (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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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. & 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, 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, 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

• 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
• 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 1-21.
• Thompson, Myles J. Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2021). Blockchain-Based Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Method. CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
• 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.
• You, Minglei, Wang, Qian, Sun, Hongjian, Castro, Ivan & Jiang, Jing (2021). Digital Twins based Day-ahead Integrated Energy System Scheduling under Load and Renewable Energy Uncertainties. Applied Energy
• Thomas, Huw, Sun, Hongjian & Kazemtabrizi, Behzad (2021). Closest Energy Matching: Improving peer‐to‐peer energy trading auctions for EV owners. IET Smart Grid 1-16.
• Alnasser, Aljawharah Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2021). QoS-Balancing Algorithm for Optimal Relay Selection in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• 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, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Alnasser, Aljawharah Sun, Hongjian & Jiang, Jing (2019). Cyber Security Challenges and Solutions for V2X Communications: A Survey. Computer Networks 151: 52-67.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hill, Ellen & Sun, Hongjian (2018). Double Threshold Spectrum Sensing Methods in Spectrum-Scarce Vehicular Communications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14(9): 4072-4080.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• You, Minglei, Sun, Hongjian, Jiang, Jing & Zhang, Jiayi (2016). Effective Rate Analysis in Weibull Fading Channels. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 5(4): 340-343.
• 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.
• 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, Wei-Yu, Sun, Hongjian & Poor, H. Vincent (2015). A Multiobjective Approach to Multimicrogrid System Design. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 6(5): 2263-2272.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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., 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.
• 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., 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, Chiu, W.-Y. & Nallanathan, A. (2012). Adaptive Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Wideband Cognitive Radios. IEEE Communications Letters 16(11): 1812-1815.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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