Abstract Intelligent Energy Networks are comprised of devices capable of fulfilling their
functions in an energy-efficient fashion and with communication and remote control …

The smart metering and communication methods used in smart grid are being extensively
studied owing to widespread applications of smart grid. Although the monitoring and control …

A block scrambling-based encryption scheme is presented to enhance the security of
Encryption-then-Compression (EtC) systems with JPEG compression, which allow us to …

This paper is concerned with the privacy-preserving distributed economic dispatch problem
(ED) of microgrids. A homomorphically encrypted consensus algorithm is developed in the …

Machine learning and statistical techniques are powerful tools for analyzing large amounts
of medical and genomic data. On the other hand, ethical concerns and privacy regulations …

Average consensus underpins key functionalities of distributed systems ranging from
distributed information fusion, decision-making, distributed optimization, to load balancing …

Over the past two decades, biometric recognition has exploded into a plethora of different
applications around the globe. This proliferation can be attributed to the high levels of …

Consensus is fundamental for distributed systems since it underpins key functionalities of
such systems ranging from distributed information fusion, decision making, to decentralized …

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) uses image content features to search and retrieve
digital images from a large database. A variety of visual feature extraction techniques have …

This article presents an overview of image transformation with a secret key and its
applications. Image transformation with a secret key enables us not only to protect visual …