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Destabilizing Power Grid and Energy Market by Cyberattacks on Smart Inverters
Xiangyu Hui, Samuel Karumba, Sid Chi-Kin Chau +1
Cyberattacks on smart inverters and distributed PV are becoming an imminent threat, because of the recent well-documented vulnerabilities and attack incidents. Particularly, the lo…
Blockchain-Enabled Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Group Purchasing for Energy Plans
Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Yue Zhou
Retail energy markets are increasingly consumer-oriented, thanks to a growing number of energy plans offered by a plethora of energy suppliers, retailers and intermediaries. To max…
Blockchain-enabled Parametric Solar Energy Insurance via Remote Sensing
Mingyu Hao, Keyang Qian, Sid Chi-Kin Chau
Despite its popularity, the nature of solar energy is highly uncertain and weather dependent, affecting the business viability and investment of solar energy generation, especially…
DClEVerNet: Deep Combinatorial Learning for Efficient EV Charging Scheduling in Large-scale Networked Facilities
Bushra Alshehhi, Areg Karapetyan, Khaled Elbassioni +2
With the electrification of transportation, the rising uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) might stress distribution networks significantly, leaving their performance degraded and st…
Privacy-preserving Blockchain-enabled Parametric Insurance via Remote Sensing and IoT
Mingyu Hao, Keyang Qian, Sid Chi-Kin Chau
Traditional Insurance, a popular approach of financial risk management, has suffered from the issues of high operational costs, opaqueness, inefficiency and a lack of trust. Recent…
Practically Efficient Secure Computation of Rank-based Statistics Over Distributed Datasets
Nan Wang, Sid Chi-Kin Chau
In this paper, we propose a practically efficient model for securely computing rank-based statistics, e.g., median, percentiles and quartiles, over distributed datasets in the mali…
Integrating IoT-Sensing and Crowdsensing with Privacy: Privacy-Preserving Hybrid Sensing for Smart Cities
Hanwei Zhu, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Gladhi Guarddin +1
Data sensing and gathering is an essential task for various information-driven services in smart cities. On the one hand, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors can be deployed at certai…
Competitive Prediction-Aware Online Algorithms for Energy Generation Scheduling in Microgrids
Ali Menati, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Minghua Chen
Online decision-making in the presence of uncertain future information is abundant in many problem domains. In the critical problem of energy generation scheduling for microgrids,…
Privacy-Preserving Energy Storage Sharing with Blockchain and Secure Multi-Party Computation
Nan Wang, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Yue Zhou
Energy storage provides an effective way of shifting temporal energy demands and supplies, which enables significant cost reduction under time-of-use energy pricing plans. Despite…
Approximately Socially-Optimal Decentralized Coalition Formation with Application to P2P Energy Sharing
Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Khaled Elbassioni, Yue Zhou
The paradigm of P2P (peer-to-peer) economy has emerged in diverse areas. "P2P energy sharing" is a new form of P2P economy in the energy sector, which allows users to establish lon…
Cloud-based Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Consumption for Sharing Economy
Lingjuan Lyu, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Nan Wang +1
Cloud computing has been a dominant paradigm for a variety of information processing platforms, particularly for enabling various popular applications of sharing economy. However,…
Decentralized Ride-Sharing and Vehicle-Pooling Based on Fair Cost-Sharing Mechanisms
Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Shuning Shen, Yue Zhou
Ride-sharing or vehicle-pooling allows commuters to team up spontaneously for transportation cost sharing. This has become a popular trend in the emerging paradigm of sharing econo…
Efficient Online Classification and Tracking on Resource-constrained IoT Devices
Muhammad Aftab, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Prashant Shenoy
Timely processing has been increasingly required on smart IoT devices, which leads to directly implementing information processing tasks on an IoT device for bandwidth savings and…
Efficient 3D Road Map Data Exchange for Intelligent Vehicles in Vehicular Fog Networks
Ivan Wang-Hei Ho, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Elmer R. Magsino +1
Through connecting intelligent vehicles as well as the roadside infrastructure, the perception range of vehicles can be significantly extended, and hidden objects at blind spots ca…
Stay or Switch: Competitive Online Algorithms for Energy Plan Selection in Energy Markets with Retail Choice
Jianing Zhai, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Minghua Chen
Energy markets with retail choice enable customers to switch energy plans among competitive retail suppliers. Despite the promising benefits of more affordable prices and better sa…
Improving Viability of Electric Taxis by Taxi Service Strategy Optimization: A Big Data Study of New York City
Chien-Ming Tseng, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Xue Liu
Electrification of transportation is critical for a low-carbon society. In particular, public vehicles (e.g., taxis) provide a crucial opportunity for electrification. Despite the…
Combinatorial Optimization of AC Optimal Power Flow with Discrete Demands in Radial Networks
Majid Khonji, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Khaled Elbassion
The AC Optimal power flow (OPF) problem is one of the most fundamental problems in power systems engineering. For the past decades, researchers have been relying on unproven heuris…
Approximations for Generalized Unsplittable Flow on Paths with Application to Power Systems Optimization
Areg Karapetyan, Khaled Elbassioni, Majid Khonji +1
The Unsplittable Flow on a Path (UFP) problem has garnered considerable attention as a challenging combinatorial optimization problem with notable practical implications. Steered b…
Enabling Self-aware Smart Buildings by Augmented Reality
Muhammad Aftab, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Majid Khonji
Conventional HVAC control systems are usually incognizant of the physical structures and materials of buildings. These systems merely follow pre-set HVAC control logic based on abs…
Autonomous Recharging and Flight Mission Planning for Battery-operated Autonomous Drones
Rashid Alyassi, Majid Khonji, Areg Karapetyan +3
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are being increasingly deployed throughout the globe as a means to streamline monitoring, inspection, mapping, and logist…
Online Algorithm for Demand Response with Inelastic Demands and Apparent Power Constraint
Areg Karapetyan, Majid Khonji, Chi-Kin Chau +1
A classical problem in power systems is to allocate in-coming (elastic or inelastic) demands without violating the operating constraints of electric networks in an online fashion.…
Complex-demand Scheduling Problem with Application in Smart Grid
Majid Khonji, Areg Karapetyan, Khaled Elbassioni +1
We consider the problem of scheduling complex-valued demands over a discretized time horizon. Given a set of users, each user is associated with a set of demands representing diffe…
Truthful Mechanisms for Combinatorial AC Electric Power Allocation
Chi-Kin Chau, Khaled Elbassioni, Majid Khonji
Traditional studies of combinatorial auctions often only consider linear constraints (by which the demands for certain goods are limited by the corresponding supplies). The rise of…