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15 papers
Automatic HVAC Control with Real-time Occupancy Recognition and Simulation-guided Model Predictive Control in Low-cost Embedded System
Muhammad Aftab, Chien Chen, Chi-Kin Chau +1
Intelligent building automation systems can reduce the energy consumption of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) units by sensing the comfort requirements automaticall…
Drive Mode Optimization and Path Planning for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Chi-Kin Chau, Khaled Elbassioni, Chien-Ming Tseng
Drive modes are driver-selectable pre-set configurations of powertrain and certain vehicle parameters. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) typically feature special options of…
Efficient Algorithm for Scalable Event-based Demand Response Management in Microgrids
Areg Karapetyan, Majid Khonji, Chi-Kin Chau +2
Demand response management has become one of the key enabling technologies for smart grids. Motivated by the increasing demand response incentives offered by service operators, mor…
Personalized Prediction of Vehicle Energy Consumption based on Participatory Sensing
Chien-Ming Tseng, Chi-Kin Chau
The advent of abundant on-board sensors and electronic devices in vehicles populates the paradigm of participatory sensing to harness crowd-sourced data gathering for intelligent t…
Effective Static and Adaptive Carrier Sensing for Dense Wireless CSMA Networks
Chi-Kin Chau, Ivan W. H. Ho, Zhenhui Situ +2
The increasingly dense deployments of wireless CSMA networks arising from applications of Internet-of-things call for an improvement to mitigate the interference among simultaneous…
Online Algorithms for Information Aggregation from Distributed and Correlated Sources
Chi-Kin Chau, Majid Khonji, Muhammad Aftab
There is a fundamental trade-off between the communication cost and latency in information aggregation. Aggregating multiple communication messages over time can alleviate overhead…
Optimal Power Flow with Inelastic Demands for Demand Response in Radial Distribution Networks
Majid Khonji, Chi-Kin Chau, Khaled Elbassioni
The classical optimal power flow problem optimizes the power flow in a power network considering the associated flow and operating constraints. In this paper, we investigate optima…
Cost Minimizing Online Algorithms for Energy Storage Management with Worst-case Guarantee
Chi-Kin Chau, Guanglin Zhang, Minghua Chen
The fluctuations of electricity prices in demand response schemes and intermittency of renewable energy supplies necessitate the adoption of energy storage in microgrids. However,…
Quantifying Inefficiency of Fair Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Sharing Economy
Chi-Kin Chau, Khaled Elbassioni
Sharing economy is a distributed peer-to-peer economic paradigm, which gives rise to a variety of social interactions for economic purposes. One fundamental distributed decision-ma…
Economic Viability of Paris Metro Pricing for Digital Services
Chi-Kin Chau, Qian Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu
Nowadays digital services, such as cloud computing and network access services, allow dynamic resource allocation and virtual resource isolation. This trend can create a new paradi…
Truthful Mechanisms for Combinatorial Allocation of Electric Power in Alternating Current Electric Systems for Smart Grid
Chi-Kin Chau, Khaled Elbassioni, Majid Khonji
Traditional studies of combinatorial auctions often only consider linear constraints. The rise of smart grid presents a new class of auctions, characterized by quadratic constraint…
Online Energy Generation Scheduling for Microgrids with Intermittent Energy Sources and Co-Generation
Lian Lu, Jinlong Tu, Chi-Kin Chau +2
Microgrids represent an emerging paradigm of future electric power systems that can utilize both distributed and centralized generations. Two recent trends in microgrids are the in…
Complex-Demand Knapsack Problems and Incentives in AC Power Systems
Lan Yu, Chi-Kin Chau
We consider AC electrical systems where each electrical device has a power demand expressed as a complex number, and there is a limit on the magnitude of total power supply. Motiva…
Analysis of Frequency-Agile CSMA Wireless Networks
Soung Chang Liew, Jialiang Zhang, Chi-Kin Chau +1
This paper proposes and analyzes the performance of a simple frequency-agile CSMA MAC protocol. In this MAC, a node carrier-senses multiple frequency channels simultaneously, and i…
Capacity of Large-scale CSMA Wireless Networks
Chi-Kin Chau, Minghua Chen, Soung Chang Liew
In the literature, asymptotic studies of multi-hop wireless network capacity often consider only centralized and deterministic TDMA (time-division multi-access) coordination scheme…