To improve the reliability of power supply in the case of the fault of distribution system with multiple distributed generators (DGs) and reduce the influence of node voltage fluctuation on the stability of distribution system operation in power rest...
By accurately identifying important nodes in the distribution network and implementing priority protection measures or optimizing the network layout, a system’s anti-interference capability can be effectively enhanced while reducing the probabi...
With the large-scale integration of high-penetration distributed photovoltaic (DPV) into distribution networks, its output volatility and reverse power flow characteristics are prone to causing voltage violations, necessitating the accurate identific...
Quantum key distribution (QKD) networks promise information-theoretic security for multiple nodes by leveraging the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics. In practice, QKD networks require dedicated routing protocols to coordinate secure key distribu...
In research on complex networks, mining relatively important nodes is a challenging and practical work. However, little research has been done on mining relatively important nodes in complex networks, and the existing relatively important node mining...
The main purpose of the study was to apply symmetry principles to general mathematical modeling based on a bi-level programming model in order to select the optimal nodes of the underground metro-based logistics system (M-ULS). The first step was to...
The transition toward sustainable and resilient new-type power systems requires robust diagnostic frameworks for terminal power supply units to ensure continuous grid stability. To ensure the resilience of modern power systems, this paper proposes a...
In distributed computing systems, if an elected leader node fails, the other nodes of the system need to elect another leader. The bully algorithm is a classical approach for electing a leader in a synchronous distributed computing system. This paper...
Real-time state estimation is defined as the process of calculating the state variable of interest in real time not being directly measured. In a water distribution system (WDS), nodal demands are often considered as the state variable (i.e., unknown...
In wireless sensor networks, due to the significance of the location information of mobile nodes for many applications, location services are the basis of many application scenarios. However, node state and communication uncertainty affect the distan...
In a bipolar DC distribution network, the unbalanced load resistance, line resistance and renewable energy source will cause an unbalanced current for each node of the neutral line and lead to its unbalanced voltage. This is a unique power quality pr...
Discussing evolutionary network models and corresponding degree distributions under different mechanisms is applied basic research in network science. This study proposes a new evolutionary network model, which integrates node preference deletion and...
Kron reduction is a general tool of network simplification for flow calculation. With a growing number of flexible loads appearing in distribution networks, traditional Kron reduction cannot be widely used in control and scheduling due to the elimina...
Single-phase-to-ground faults occur frequently in distribution networks, while traditional localization methods have limitations such as insufficient feature extraction and poor topological adaptability. To address these issues, this paper proposes a...
This study addresses the importance of focal nodes in understanding the structural composition of networks. To identify these crucial nodes, a novel technique based on parallel Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) is proposed. By utilising the focal nodes pro...
A distributed power system operation and control node privacy and security are attractive research questions that deliver electrical energy systems to the participating stakeholders without being physically connected to the grid system. The increased...
As service latency and core network load relates to performance issues in the conventional cloud-based computing environment, the fog computing system has gained a lot of interest. However, since the load can be concentrated on specific fog computing...
The placement of micro phasor measurement units in an active distribution network can improve the monitoring performance of the system. However, the price and placement cost of micro phasor measurement units are high, so existing research mostly focu...
Many similarity measure algorithms of nodes in weighted graph data have been proposed by employing the degree of nodes in recent years. Despite these algorithms obtaining great results, there may be still some limitations. For instance, the strength...
In this paper, the novel study of an Internet of Things (IoT) network model with multimodal node distribution and a data-collecting mechanism using mobile clustering nodes is presented. The aim of this work is to introduce the problem of organizing t...
Background: Delineating the nodal clinical target volume (CTVn) remains a challenging task in patients with cervical or upper thoracic esophageal carcinoma (EC). In particular, the extent of the lymph area that should be included in the irradiation f...
In this study, the phenomenon of node percolation was tested using the Monte Carlo computer simulation method for square matrices with dimensions L = 55, 101 and 151. The number of samples for each matrix was 5 × 106. The spatial distributions...
In traditional symbol-level network coding (SLNC)-based cooperative content distribution approaches, they ignore nodes in the vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) having various network-coded content pieces and distinct levels of interests and selfishnes...
Due to the emergence of various new applications, such as short videos and online games, higher requirements of their computing and storage capacity are demanded of mobile networks. The traditional cloud computing paradigm has the shortcomings of lar...
Immune checkpoint blockades prescribed in the neoadjuvant setting are now under active investigation for many types of tumors, and many have shown early success. The primary tumor (PT) and tumor-draining lymph node (TDLN) immune factors, along with a...
Due to the high-energy efficiency and scalability, the clustering routing algorithm has been widely used in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In order to gather information more efficiently, each sensor node transmits data to its Cluster Head (CH) to...
This paper is focused on the study of the energy hole problem in the Progressive Multi-hop Rotational Clustered (PMRC)-structure, a highly scalable wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture. Based on an analysis on the traffic load distribution in P...
Respiratory infections are a real threat for humans, and therefore the pig model is of interest for studies. As one of a case for studies, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP) caused infections and still worries many pig breeders around the world. T...
Mobile social networks suffer from an unbalanced traffic load distribution due to the heterogeneity in mobility of nodes (humans) in the network. A few nodes in these networks are highly mobile, and the proposed social-based routing algorithms are li...
The point-to-point quantum key distribution (QKD) system is limited by the transmission distance. So, the wide area QKD network with multiple endpoints is the research focus of this study. The relay-node scenario and key relay protocols provide the s...
Sensor placement for disaster prevention for important users in urban water distribution networks is essential for post-earthquake monitoring and repair. Herein, we proposed a sensor placement approach for disaster prevention monitoring for important...
With the rise in fog computing, users are no longer restricted to only accessing resources located in central and distant clouds and can request services from neighboring fog nodes distributed over networks. This can effectively reduce the network la...
To improve the distributed carbon emission optimization control capability of the smart distribution network system, thereby reducing the carbon emissions in the distribution process, it is a very important issue to comprehensively analyze the import...
An increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) are replacing gasoline vehicles in the automobile market due to the economic and environmental benefits. The high penetration of EVs is one of the main challenges in the future smart grid. As a result o...
The increasing uncertainties and model computational complexity of large-scale power system state estimation have led to the emergence of a class of multi-source metrology devices to provide vector data for the grid to improve the observability. Cons...
To address the node voltage fluctuation and over-limit caused by the high penetration of distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation connected to distribution networks, this paper proposes a network partition-based optimal reactive power allocation and...
The multi-source cooperation integrating distributed low-density parity-check codes is investigated to jointly collect data from multiple sensor nodes to the mobile sink in the wireless sensor network. The one-round and two-round cooperative data col...
To combat the high outage probability, high complexity calculation, and low resource utilization rate of collaborative communications, an optimal decode-and-forward (DF) multirelay selection and power allocation is proposed in cooperative wireless se...
Owing to its high-fault tolerance and scalability, the consensus-based paradigm has attracted immense popularity for distributed state estimation. If a target is neither observed by a certain node nor by its neighbors, this node is naive about the ta...
The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and power electronic loads challenges the modeling and control of modern distribution networks (DNs). The traditional models often fail to capture the complex aggregate dynamics requir...
Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs) can achieve more tasks and prolong the network lifetime. However, they are vulnerable to attacks from the environment or malicious nodes. This paper is concerned with the issues of a consensus secure sch...
Power flow analysis is an inevitable methodology in the planning and operation of the power grid. It has been performed for the transmission system, however, along with the penetration of the distributed energy resources, the target has been expanded...
In an increasingly wireless world, spatiotemporal monitoring of the exposure to environmental radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF) is crucial to appease public uncertainty and anxiety about RF-EMF. However, although the advent of smart ci...
Several types of cancer spread through the lymphatic system via the sentinel lymph nodes (LNs). Such LN-draining primary tumors, modified by tumor factors, lead to the formation of a metastatic niche associated with an increased number of Foxp3+ regu...
This paper deals with the optimal reconfiguration problem of DC distribution networks by proposing a new mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulation. This MINLP model focuses on minimising the power losses in the distribution lines by ref...
The consensus protocol is a fundamental building block in distributed computing and has been widely used in blockchain systems in recent years. Paxos, introduced by Lamport, stands out as one of the most widely adopted consensus protocols and has fou...
Seismic performance assessment of water distribution systems (WDSs) based on hydraulic simulation is essential for resilience evaluation of WDSs under earthquake disasters. The assessment is mainly to determine how the water supply will be affected d...
Modern wireless sensor networks have adopted the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. This standard defines the first two layers, the physical and medium access control layers; determines the radio wave used for communication; and defines the 128-bit advanced enc...
Due to a rising share of renewable energy sources on the production side and electrification of transport and heating on the consumption side, the efficient management of flexibility in distribution networks is crucial for ensuring optimal operation...
Pollution accidents that occur in surface waters, especially in drinking water source areas, greatly threaten the urban water supply system. During water pollution source localization, there are complicated pollutant spreading conditions and pollutan...
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