Software Defined Networks for Energy Internet and Smart Grid Communications

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Software Defined Networks for Energy Internet and Smart Grid Communications.

A new network paradigm of Software Defined Networks (SDN) is being widely adapted to efficiently monitor and manage the communication networks with a global perspective. SDN has a key networking feature that separates control and data plane. Today, due to its inherent benefits, SDN has been widely applied to various networking domains including data centers, WAN, enterprise, Optical Networks, Under Water Sensor Networks (UWSN), Energy Internet (EI), and Smart Grid (SG).

Energy Internet (EI) and Smart Grid (SG) are two complementary terms. Energy Internet refers to the vision of integrating future electricity grid into the web. Smart Grid refers to the advancement of current electricity grid with the help of information and communication technologies. The key feature that distinguishes EI from the SG is its tight coupling of EI with the Internet. One might argue that EI is the advanced form of Smart Grid. Nevertheless, as both EI and SG technologies differ in various ways, especially in terms of implementation and applications, there are fundamental research questions that are yet to be addressed. In a traditional Internet scenario, organizations have local area networks (LANs). These small LANs are from the small geographical areas such as cites and are connected together to form  Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), which are then inter-connected together to form  Wide Area Networks (WANs). Likewise, in an EI scenario, a world-wide energy-Wide Area Network (e-WAN) is composed of networked regional small-scale energy-Local Area Networks (e-LANs). Similar to a network router in the traditional Internet, we have an e-router in the EI, which is responsible for  power delivery and information forwarding.

In order to realize full functionality of EI and SG, an efficient communication system would be essential, i.e., a networked system and infrastructure with fast reliable information flow capability, and support for good system observability and controllability. Such communication systems would facilitate the EI and SG to achieve secure, reliable, and safe power and information exchange. Therefore, SDN has an immense potential in playing a significant role in managing the overall network and communication entities for the future EI and SG systems. By adapting the concepts of SDN in the current as well as to future EI and SG systems, the efficiency and resiliency of the entire system could be significantly improved by further fueling the growth of research and industry methods in EI and SG.

Overall, the goal of this proposed Special Section in IEEE Access is to publish and capture the most recent advances and trends in the promising technologies of Energy Internet and Smart Grid, particularly from the perspective of Software Defined Networks.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Software Defined Networks for Smart Grid (SG)
  • Software Defined Networks for Energy Internet (EI)
  • SDN-based Internet of Things (IoT) for Energy Internet
  • Architectures and Protocols for SDN-based SG and EI
  • Resource Allocation Techniques for SDN-based EI and SG
  • Routing and MAC Protocols for SDN-based EI and SG
  • Renewable Energy Resources and SDN-based EI and SG
  • Performance Analysis, Testbed and Simulation Tools for SDN-based EI and SG
  • Big Data Analytics for SDN-based EI and SG
  • SDN Monitoring and Management Applications in HANs, NANs, WANs, and AMI
  • SG and EI Communication Monitoring techniques through SDN

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Associate Editor:  Mubashir Husain Rehmani, TSSG, WIT, Ireland


Guest Editors:

  1. Alan Davy, TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
  2. Brendan Jennings, TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology , Ireland
  3. Zeeshan Kaleem, COMSATS, Pakistan
  4. Akhilesh Thyagaturu, Intel Mobile Communications, USA
  5. Hassnaa Moustafa, Intel Corporation, USA
  6. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications
  2. Power Quality and Harmonics Issues of Future and Smart Grids
  3. Battery Energy Storage and Management Systems


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  mshrehmani@gmail.com

 

Advanced Energy Storage Technologies and Their Applications

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Advanced energy storage technologies and their applications.

The depletion of fossil fuels, the increase of energy demands, and the concerns over climate change are the major driving forces for the development of renewable energy such as solar energy and wind power. However, the intermittency of renewable energy has hindered the deployment of large scale intermittent renewable energy, which, therefore, has necessitated the development of advanced large-scale energy storage technologies. The use of large scale energy storage can effectively improve the efficiency of energy resource utilization, and increase the use of variable renewable resources, the energy access and the end-use sector electrification (e.g. electrification of transport sector).

The main objective of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to provide a platform for presenting the latest research results on the technology development of large scale energy storage. We welcome research articles about theoretical, methodological and empirical studies, as well as review articles that provide a critical overview on the state-of-the-art of these technologies. This Special Section is open to all types of energy, such as thermal energy, mechanical energy, electrical energy and chemical energy, using different types of systems, such as phase change materials, batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, compressed air, etc., which are applicable to various types of applications, such as heat and power generation, electrical/hybrid transportation etc. Original, high quality technical articles as well as original review and survey articles are encouraged.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Novel energy storage materials and topologies
  • Application in electrical/hybrid driven system and electrical/hybrid vehicles
  • Next generation energy storage and conversion devices, systems or techniques
  • Large scale energy storage system modeling, simulation and optimization, including testing and modeling ageing processes
  • Advanced energy storage management systems, including advanced control algorithms and fault diagnosis/online condition monitoring for energy storage systems
  • Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems
  • Wireless power transfer, charging systems and infrastructures
  • Big Data Analytics in Energy
  • Business model for the application and deployment of energy storage
  • Lifecycle analysis, repurposing, and recycling

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Associate Editor: Rui Xiong, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Suleiman Sharkh, University of Southampton, UK
  2. Hailong Li, Mälardalen University, Sweden
  3. Kevin Bai, University of Michigan, USA
  4. Weixiang Shen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  5. Peng Bai, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
  6. Joe Zhou, Kettering University, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Energy Management in Buildings
  2. Battery Energy Storage and Management Systems
  3. Advanced Modeling and Control of Complex Mechatronic Systems with Nonlinearity and Uncertainty

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: rxiong@bit.edu.cn

Energy Management in Buildings

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Energy Management in Buildings.

Buildings can be viewed as small cities due to their size, users, and mixed complex activities. The energy and environmental impact caused by buildings through provision of support services and activities and operations, such as working and living, could be considerably reduced by an effective choice of organizational and managerial measures. Groups of buildings create an urban-kind climate which cannot be neglected. To design and operate sustainable buildings, it is necessary to factor a number of parameters, such as the interaction of indoor-outdoor environment strategic planning and operational processes. Moreover, towards this “district approach,” the use of buildings as a field of application, is considerably advantageous compared to a community or city district as the overall area typically belongs to a single owner.

Aside from this, buildings consume a large portion of the world’s energy and are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. The nature of buildings is changing from static and passive structures to dynamic and active environments. The concept of sustainable and intelligent buildings is emerging as an important area for the energy initiative. Therefore, effective energy management is becoming more feasible using innovative technologies.

Till now, limited research efforts have been done and a limited number of papers have been published on the whole roadmap of new energy management system in buildings, towards new research and applications issues. The goal of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to present and highlight the advances and the latest novel and emerging technologies, implementations and applications in the field of energy management in buildings. This will provide readers with a clearer understanding of the design and development of energy management in buildings.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • The technologies to perform effective energy management of buildings.
  • The research trends concerning the operation of Buildings in a smart grids’ framework.
  • The necessary transformations that will support the roadmap towards zero energy districts and communities.
  • The best energy conservation and renewable energy mixtures to reduce the energy consumption of buildings.
  • Efficient and smart techniques to predict the energy consumption and the environmental quality of buildings.
  • Thermal comfort conditions and indoor air quality in buildings and propose methods to improve them.
  • Stochastic optimization methods for distributed energy management in buildings.
  • Hierarchical control applications to distributed energy management in buildings.
  • Energy management buildings and other demand-side applications (e.g.,EVs and DR).
  • Big data analytics and visualization for distributed energy management in buildings.
  • Distributed wireless sensors for energy management in buildings.
  • Energy management system security, resilience and extensibility as a cyber-physical-system (CPS).

 

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Associate Editor: Kun Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, P. R. China

Guest Editors:

  1. Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
  2. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
  3. Fei Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada
  4. Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications
  2. Power Quality and Harmonics Issues of Future and Smart Grids
  3. Battery Energy Storage and Management Systems

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: specialsections@ieee.org

The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications (Part II)

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2017

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications.

Energy crisis and carbon emission have become two critical concerns universally. As a very promising solution, the concept of Internet of Energy has appeared to tackle these challenges. The Internet of Energy is a new power generation paradigm by developing a revolutionary vision of smart grids into the Internet. The communication infrastructure is an essential component for implementing the Internet of Energy. A scalable and robust communication infrastructure is crucial in both operating and maintaining smart energy systems. The wide-scale implementation and development of Internet of Energy into industrial applications should take into account the following challenges:

  • Integrating highly scalable and distributed alternative energy generating sources with other available power grid systems: to promote a green-energy-based industry and society and realize the optimization of energy utilization, the efficient gathering, transportation, storage and integrating these into the existing power grid are faced with great challenges.
  • Advanced metering, monitoring and controlling systems: since the observability, controllability and predictability are three critical aspects in the Internet of Energy, real-time monitoring and controlling are faced with great challenges in order to collect precise energy consumption data, give deep analysis and provide rich users information. In this way, users can adjust their energy consumption intelligently with optimization goals.
  • Cyber Security and Privacy-aware data management for Internet of Energy: Among many applications in Internet of Energy, energy consumption data could be linked and mined to gain useful insights for optimization of energy utilization. At the same time, privacy and security concerns can prevent the information disclosure, energy wastage and disaster. Further safeguards are needed to build trust in the data, which is instrumental for making critical decisions for the development of Internet of Energy.

Till now, an increasing number of research efforts have been done and some articles have been published on the integration and interaction between Internet of Energy and advanced technologies, towards new applications and security issues.

The response to our Call for Papers on this Special Section in IEEE Access (PART I) were overwhelming. In this Special Section PART II, we would like to again invite researchers who are working on related research issues to contribute high quality papers to further advance people’s understanding of the relationship among Internet of Energy, target applications and advanced technologies. We welcome both original, practical work and review articles.

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

 

Associate Editor: Kun Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory & University of Oslo, Norway
  2. Song Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  3. Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
  4.  Rose Qingyang Hu, Utah State University, USA
  5. Lei He, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications (Part I)
  2. Power Quality and Harmonics Issues of Future and Smart Grids
  3. Battery Energy Storage and Management Systems

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: specialsections@ieee.org

Power Quality and Harmonics Issues of Future and Smart Grids

Submission Deadline: 31 Jul 2017

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Power Quality and Harmonics Issues of Future and Smart Grids.

Penetration of grid connected renewable energy systems and smart loads based on power electronics technology has been increasing in low and medium voltage distribution. Power Electronics system is a key technology for distribution networks which can transfer electrical power from renewable energy sources to grids or generate regulated frequency and/or voltage for different loads such as variable speed drives and battery chargers. New demands for a) cost and size reduction, b) performance and quality improvement and c) flexibility on power management have promoted power electronics applications extensively in industrial, commercial and residential sectors such as in transportation, utility and home appliances in the recent years.

Harmonics are integer multiples of the fundamental signal (voltage or current at 50 or 60 Hz) and have short and long term effects on grids and grid connected electronics and power electronics equipment such as malfunction, failure and losses. These reduce reliability, lifetime and efficiency of the electricity networks. Main drawbacks of power electronics systems are low (below 2 kHz) and/or high (above 2 kHz) frequency harmonics emissions. Power electronics converters with Wide Band-Gap (WBG) switches generate more high frequency harmonics than the conventional switches due to their ability to operate at higher switching frequencies. They can increase and shift the harmonics emissions from 0-2 kHz to the higher frequency ranges (2-150 kHz) and create new power quality problems of the current and the future electricity networks.

This Special Section in IEEE Access focuses on most emerging harmonics and power quality issues of future and smart grids. The main aim of this Special Section is to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to share most recent power quality and harmonics issues of grid connected power electronics systems.

The main topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Harmonics estimation of low voltage distribution networks
  • Power quality of future grids based on high penetration of power electronics systems
  • Centralized and decentralized power quality control of smart grids
  • Small and large scales harmonics modelling of multi power electronics converters
  • Grid impedance effects on power quality of grids
  • Stability and control analysis and modelling of single-phase and three-phase Active Front End systems
  • New Trends in Active Power Filters: control, topology and operation in weak grids
  • Harmonic emissions of power electronics systems based on WBG devices
  • Resonant frequency of grids: low and high frequency modelling
  • Interharmonics and 2-9 kHz harmonics emissions issues
  • Electrical Safety codes for the future grids

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Associate Editor: Firuz Zare, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Guest Editors:

  1. Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark
  2. Pooya Davari, Aalborg University, Denmark
  3. Jafar Adabi, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran
  4. Gary W. Chang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access (Phone: (732) 562-6036, specialsections@ieee.org)

Battery Energy Storage and Management Systems

Submission Deadline: 31 January 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Battery Energy Storage and Management Systems.

Batteries are still performance and cost bottlenecks of many sophisticated mechatronic and energy systems, such as electrified vehicles, portable electronics, and smart grid. In addition to continual progress in chemistries and materials, development of reliable, efficient, and robust battery management system (BMS) has been a top priority and emerging research topic in recent years. Advanced BMS facilitates renewable ways of storing electrical energy from wind and solar energy sources, and expedites a paradigm shift toward a sustainable transportation system. Battery energy storage is sitting at crossroads of chemistry, material, mathematical modeling, and systems engineering, highlighting its multidisciplinary nature.

The main objective of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to provide timely solutions for emerging scientific/technical challenges in battery electrochemistry, material, algorithmic and hardware aspects of BMS design, as well as the related system-level integration and control. Original, high-calibre technical articles as well as state-of-art review and survey papers are encouraged to submit.

Topics of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Battery modelling: equivalent circuit model, electrochemical model, thermal model, and aging model
  • Battery state estimation: State of Charge, State of Health, State of Life, and State of Power Estimation
  • Battery diagnosis, prognosis, and health management (PHM): physics-based, model-based, data-driven, and hybrid approaches
  • Battery electrochemical/material characteristics: cathode, anode, separator, and electrolyte.
  • Battery cell balancing: passive and active balancing methods; cell consistency assessment
  • Battery grouping/packing techniques: architectural analysis, sensor placement, and power electronic aspects
  • Cell heat generation and battery system heat transfer analyses
  • Battery cooling systems and battery thermal management systems (BTMS)
  • Battery charging control
  • Battery impedance spectroscopy: theory, experiment, and applications
  • BMS hardware design and verification
  • System-level integration and control of batteries into electric vehicles and smart grid
  • Battery storage of renewable energy

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Associate Editor: Xiaosong Hu, Chongqing University, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Loïc Boulon, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
  2. Suleiman Sharkh, University of Southampton, UK
  3. Chao Hu, Iowa State University, USA
  4. Nicholas Dane Williard, Schlumberger – Houston, USA
  5. Yinjiao (Laura) Xing, University of Maryland, USA
  6. Rui Xiong, Beijing Institute of Technology, China


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: xiaosonghu@ieee.org

The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications (Part I)

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications.

Energy crisis and carbon emission have become two critical concerns universally. As a very promising solution, the concept of Internet of Energy has appeared to tackle these challenges. The Internet of Energy is a new power generation paradigm by developing a revolutionary vision of smart grids into the Internet. The communication infrastructure is an essential component for implementing the Internet of Energy. A scalable and robust communication infrastructure is crucial in both operating and maintaining smart energy systems. The wide-scale implementation and development of Internet of Energy into industrial applications should take into account the following challenges:

  • Integrating highly scalable and distributed alternative energy generating sources with other available power grid systems: to promote a green-energy-based industry and society and realize the optimization of energy utilization, the efficient gathering, transportation, storage and integrating these into the existing power grid are faced with great challenges.
  • Advanced metering, monitoring and controlling systems: since the observability, controllability and predictability are three critical aspects in the Internet of Energy, real-time monitoring and controlling are faced with great challenges in order to collect precise energy consumption data, give deep analysis and provide rich users information. In this way, users can adjust their energy consumption intelligently with optimization goals.
  • Cyber Security and Privacy-aware data management for Internet of Energy: Among many applications in Internet of Energy, energy consumption data could be linked and mined to gain useful insights for optimization of energy utilization. At the same time, privacy and security concerns can prevent the information disclosure, energy wastage and disaster. Further safeguards are needed to build trust in the data, which is instrumental for making critical decisions for the development of Internet of Energy.

Till now, limited research efforts have been done and a limited number of papers have been published on the integration and interaction between Internet of Energy and advanced technologies, towards new applications and security issues.

In this Special Section in IEEE Access, we would like to invite researchers who are working on related research issues to contribute high quality papers to further advance people’s understanding of the relationship among Internet of Energy, target applications and advanced technologies. We welcome both original practical work and review papers.

 

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

Associate Editor: Kun Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P. R. China

Guest Editors:
1. Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory & University of Oslo, Norway
2. Song Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan
3. Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
4. Rose Qingyang Hu, Utah State University, USA
5. Lei He, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access (Phone: (732) 562-6036, specialsections@ieee.org)

Energy Harvesting and Scavenging: Technologies, Algorithms, and Communication Protocols

Submission Deadline: 30 December 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Energy Harvesting and Scavenging: Technologies, Algorithms, and Communication Protocols.

The operation of modern electronic communication devices rely on constant energy sources such as DC power obtained from AC sources via AC to DC conversion or small chargeable/replaceable batteries. However, in some cases, providing a constant energy source is not feasible. Due to the advancement in technology, energy harvesting technologies can be exploited to power-up the modern day electronic communication devices. These energy harvesting technologies rely on energy sources naturally present in the environment, such as solar energy, wind energy, and heat energy. Moreover, energy can also be acquired from the human body from movement of different parts of the body such as walking, heartbeat, movement of arms, just to name a few. All these energy harvesting technologies and techniques may satisfy the need of energy for low power communication devices and may enable the charging of electronic mobile devices anywhere and at any time.

In this Special Section in IEEE Access, we focus on the most recent advances in the interdisciplinary research areas encompassing the Energy Harvesting domain. This Special Section will bring together researchers from diverse fields and specializations, such as communications engineering, computer science, electrical and electronics engineering, bio-medical engineering, education sector, mathematics and specialists in the areas related to energy harvesting technologies. In this Special Section, we invite researchers from academia, industry, and governmental organizations to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on the energy harvesting and related areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Battery Recharging Techniques
  • Harvesting Technologies (Solar Cells, Peizoelectric, Electrostatic, Bio Fuel Cell)
  • Analysis of Energy Sources (walking, body heat, heart beat etc) in Body Area Networks
  • Solar Energy based Battery Recharging
  • Bio Chemical Energy Harvesting Sources
  • Bio Mechanical Energy Harvesting Sources
  • Ambient Energy Harvesting Sources
  • Wind Energy based Battery Recharging
  • Head Energy based Battery Recharging
  • Wireless Power Transfer
  • Inductive Coupling Methods of Energy Harvesting
  • Magnetic Resonance based Methods of Energy Harvesting
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Energy Harvesting in Cellular Networks
  • Energy Harvesting in Cognitive Cellular Systems
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Standardization Activities for Energy Harvesting in Communication Networks
  • Spectrum Related Issues for Energy Harnessing
  • Security and Privacy Issues of Energy Harvesting
  • Algorithms and Protocols for Energy Harvesting

 

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Associate Editor: Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

Guest Editors:
1. Ayaz Ahmad, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
2. Abderrezak Rachedi, University Paris Est, France
3. Soumaya Cherkaoui, Professor at Sherbrooke University, Canada
4. Kok-Lim Alvin Yau, Sunway University, Malaysia

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access (Phone: (732) 562-6036, specialsections@ieee.org)