The high penetration of renewable power generators and various loads have brought a great challenge for dispatching energy in a microgrid system. Heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) system, as a household appl...
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The high penetration of renewable power generators and various loads have brought a great challenge for dispatching energy in a microgrid system. Heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) system, as a household appliance with high popularity, can be considered as an effective technology to alleviate energy dispatch issues. This paper presents novel distributed algorithms based on HVAC to solve the demand side management problem, where the microgrid system with HVAC units is considered as a multi-agent system (MAS). The approach provides a desirable operating frequency signal for each HVAC based on the power mismatch value occurring on each local bus. It utilizes demand response of the HVAC units to minimize the supply-demand mismatch, thus reducing the quantity and capacity of energy storage devices potentially to be required. Compared with existing approaches focusing on the distributed algorithms under a fixed communication network, this paper addresses a consensus problem under a switching topology by using the Lyapunov argument. It is verified that a jointly strong and connected topology is a sufficient condition in order to achieve an average consensus for a time-varying topology. A number of cases are studied to evaluate the effectiveness of the algorithms by taking into account its power constraints, dynamic behaviors, anti-damage characteristics and time-varying communication topology. Modelling these system interactions has demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed microgrid system.
The k-set agreement problem is a generalization of the consensus problem. Namely, assuming that each process proposes a value, every non-faulty process must decide one of the proposed values, under the constraint that...
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The k-set agreement problem is a generalization of the consensus problem. Namely, assuming that each process proposes a value, every non-faulty process must decide one of the proposed values, under the constraint that at most k different values are decided. This is a hard problem in the sense that it cannot be solved in a pure read/write asynchronous system, in which k or more processes may crash. One way to sidestep this impossibility result consists in weakening the termination property, requiring only that a process decides if it executes alone during a long enough period of time. This is the well-known obstruction-freedom progress condition. Consider a system of n anonymous asynchronous processes that communicate through atomic read/write registers, and such that any number of them may crash. This paper addresses and solves the challenging open problem of designing an obstruction-free k-set agreement algorithm with only atomic registers. From a shared memory cost point of view, our algorithm is the best algorithm known to date, thereby establishing a new upper bound on the number of registers needed to solve this problem. For the consensus case , the proposed algorithm is up to an additive factor of 1 close to the best known lower bound. Further, the paper extends this algorithm to obtain an x-obstruction-free solution to the k-set agreement problem that employs atomic registers (with ), as well as a space-optimal solution for the repeated version of k-set agreement. Using this last extension, we prove that n registers are enough for every colorless task that is obstruction-free solvable with identifiers and any number of registers.
Synchronization in networks of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems is considered under relative actuation. Neither input nor output matrices are assumed to be commensurable. A distributed algorithm that ensure...
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Synchronization in networks of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems is considered under relative actuation. Neither input nor output matrices are assumed to be commensurable. A distributed algorithm that ensures synchronization via dynamic relative output feedback is presented. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The diffusion least-mean p-power algorithm is presented for distributed estimation in impulsive noise environments, which aims to minimize the p-norm of the error. However, it suffers from slow convergence rate. In th...
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The diffusion least-mean p-power algorithm is presented for distributed estimation in impulsive noise environments, which aims to minimize the p-norm of the error. However, it suffers from slow convergence rate. In this brief, we propose a diffusion normalized least-mean p-power algorithm (DNLMP), motivated by the normalized-based algorithms. To further improve the performance of the DNLMP algorithm, a robust DNLMP (RDNLMP) algorithm is developed for distributed estimation. The RDNLMP algorithm considers the error signal in normalization factor, and therefore can diminish the significance of outliers under impulsive noise environments. Moreover, the steady-state analysis of the RDNLMP algorithm is provided. Both performance analysis and numerical simulations are given to verify the proposed algorithms.
A networked system can be made resilient against adversaries and attacks if the underlying network graph is structurally robust. A typical approach to making networks structurally robust is to strategically add extra ...
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A networked system can be made resilient against adversaries and attacks if the underlying network graph is structurally robust. A typical approach to making networks structurally robust is to strategically add extra links between nodes, which might be prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we propose an alternative way of improving network’s robustness, that is by considering heterogeneity of nodes. Nodes in a network can be of different types and can have multiple variants. As a result, different nodes can have disjoint sets of vulnerabilities, which means that an attacker can only compromise a particular type of nodes by exploiting a particular vulnerability. We show that, by such a diversification of nodes, attacker’s ability to change the underlying network structure can be reduced significantly. Consequently, even a sparse network with heterogeneous nodes can exhibit the properties of a structurally robust network. Using these ideas, we propose a distributed control policy that utilizes heterogeneity in the network to achieve resilient consensus in adversarial environment. We extend the notion of (r,s)-robustness to incorporate the diversity of nodes and provide necessary and sufficient conditions to guarantee resilient distributed consensus in heterogeneous networks. Finally we study the properties and construction of robust graphs with heterogeneous nodes.
In the present paper we develop a distributed method to reconnect a multi-robot team after connectivity failures, caused by unpredictable environment changes, i.e. appearance of new obstacles. After the changes, the t...
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In the present paper we develop a distributed method to reconnect a multi-robot team after connectivity failures, caused by unpredictable environment changes, i.e. appearance of new obstacles. After the changes, the team is divided into different groups of robots. The groups have a limited communication range and only a partial information in their field of view about the current scenario. Their objective is to form a chain from a static base station to a goal location. In the proposed distributed replanning approach, the robots predict new plans for the other groups from the new observed information by each robot in the changed scenario, to restore the connectivity with a base station and reach the initial joint objective. If a solution exists, the method achieves the reconnection of all the groups in a unique chain. The proposed method is compared with other two cases: 1) when all the agents have full information of the environment, and 2) when some robots must move to reach other waiting robots for reconnection. Numerical simulations are provided to evaluate the proposed approach in the presence of unpredictable scenario changes.
Connected dominating set (CDS) is the most representative technology for constructing a virtual backbone in wireless networks and plays an important role in wireless applications including broadcasting, routing and so...
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Connected dominating set (CDS) is the most representative technology for constructing a virtual backbone in wireless networks and plays an important role in wireless applications including broadcasting, routing and so on. In a cognitive radio networks, the lifetime and efficiency are two important indices for measuring CDS algorithms due to the random activities of primary users (PUs). However, to the best of our knowledge, the existing algorithms for CDS construction in CRNs ignore the execution effectiveness instead of lifetime. In this paper, we propose a four-phase distributed algorithm to maximize the lifetime of CDS while guaranteeing the effectiveness of the algorithm. The proposed algorithm terminates in O(N 3 log N) timeslots, which is more effective than that of O(N 4 ).
In this paper, a novel hierarchical approach called distributed energy efficient adaptive clustering protocol with data gathering, load-balancing and self-adaptation (ACP) is proposed for wireless sensor network. We h...
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In this paper, a novel hierarchical approach called distributed energy efficient adaptive clustering protocol with data gathering, load-balancing and self-adaptation (ACP) is proposed for wireless sensor network. We have proposed (ACP) approach to reach the following objectives: reduce the overall network energy consumption, balance the energy consumption among the sensors and extend the lifetime of the network, the clustering must be completely distributed, the clustering should be efficient in complexity of message and time, the cluster-heads should be well-distributed across the network, the load balancing should be done well, the clustered WSN should be fully-connected. We consider the problem of conserving energy by turning off the node's radio for periods of a fixed time length. As a result transmission power of the node is reduced, which subsequently reduce the energy consumption of the node. Our proposed work is simulated through network simulator (NS-2). Simulations show that (ACP) clusters have good performance characteristics.
Gas-based distributed energy stations are supported by Chinese government and have significant commercial potential. Recently, Chines retail electricity market is reforming. Integrating distributed energy stations mak...
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Gas-based distributed energy stations are supported by Chinese government and have significant commercial potential. Recently, Chines retail electricity market is reforming. Integrating distributed energy stations makes retailers transform into multi-energy providers (MEPs) and brings huge competitive advantages. A multi-leaders and multi-followers Stackelberg game between MEPs and energy consumers (ECs) is applied to simulate the dynamic behaviors of pricing, producing and consuming. MEPs as the leaders optimize the electricity and heat prices with the aim of maximizing their own income. ECs as the followers optimize the electricity and heat demands with the aim of maximizing their own consumer surplus based on the prices from different MEPs. In addition, the price set by a MEP also depends on the prices of other MEPs. Therefore, there is a non-cooperative game among MEPs. A distributed algorithm is executed by a virtual energy exchange center (VEEC) to solve the game equilibrium and analyze the joint pricing of multiple energy in the retail energy market. By analyzing the numerical results, we verify the validity of the Stackelberg game model, as well as the accuracy of the proposed algorithm and mathematical derivation.
There are correlations of data in adjacent nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Internet of Things (IoT) and so on. Compression based on clustering is an effective way to reduce the communication cost and save th...
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There are correlations of data in adjacent nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Internet of Things (IoT) and so on. Compression based on clustering is an effective way to reduce the communication cost and save the energy. Comparing with former schemes that are centrally controlled, a distributed dynamic clustering scheme is presented in this paper, with which the network can be partitioned to clusters adaptive to the topology and according to the local knowledge, to assure better energy property. This method also considers the capacity constraint in practical networks and the applications with concealed data. Analyses and simulations verify that the proposed scheme has higher efficiency and better practicability.
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