This special issue of this journal is devoted to the 7th Global Conference on Power, Control, and Optimization (PCO’2013) (http://ifors.org/web/seventh-global-conference-on-powercontrol-and-optimization-pco-2013/), which was held on August 25–27, 2013, in Prague, Czech Republic. Best papers of this conference were covered. PCO’2013 attracted participants from many countries and from across the ...

A direct virtual power control algorithm is presented in this paper for VSC-HVDC startup. This control algorithm is based on direct power control (DPC) and expands the range of DPC. When the VSC converter AC side open circuit or the AC side current is zero, the control algorithm maintains the DPC feedback loop by introducing a virtual power, so that the DPC is able to control the AC output volt...

This paper proposes a stable, dynamic, distributed clustering for energy efficient networking. Via simulation, we evaluate the impacts of mobility and transmission power variation on network stability.

High system capacities can be achieved by controlling the transmitter power in multiuser radio systems. Power control with no constraint on the maximum power level has been studied extensively in earlier work([1]-[18]). Transmitter power is at a premium in radio systems such as cellular systems and PCS. There is a limit on the maximum transmitter power especially at the terminals (eg. mobile un...

This work considers a power control algorithm for cellular communications systems in which a user’s link quality objective, as measured by signal to interference ratio (SIR), varies with its transmitter power. In particular, as increased interference or reduced uplink gain leads a mobile to raise its transmitter power, that mobile lowers its SIR target. In this way, the likelihood of an infeasi...