Coordinated optimization and control of distribution-level assets enables a reliable and optimal integration of massive amount of distributed energy resources (DERs) and facilitates distribution system management (DSM...
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Coordinated optimization and control of distribution-level assets enables a reliable and optimal integration of massive amount of distributed energy resources (DERs) and facilitates distribution system management (DSM). Accordingly, the objective is to coordinate the power injection at the DERs to maintain certain quantities across the network, e.g., voltage magnitude, line flows, and line losses, to be close to a desired profile. By and large, the performance of the DSM algorithms has been challenged by two factors: 1) the possibly nonstrongly connected communication network over DERs that hinders the coordination;and 2) the dynamics of the real system caused by the DERs with heterogeneous capabilities, time-varying operating conditions, and real-time measurement mismatches. In this paper, we investigate the modeling and algorithm design and analysis with the consideration of these two factors. In particular, a game-theoretic characterization is first proposed to account for a locally connected communication network over DERs, along with the analysis of the existence and uniqueness of the Nash equilibrium therein. To achieve the equilibrium in a distributed fashion, a projected-gradient-based asynchronous DSM algorithm is then advocated. The algorithm performance, including the convergence speed and the tracking error, is analytically guaranteed under the dynamic setting. Extensive numerical tests on both synthetic and realistic cases corroborate the analytical results derived.
Consider an orthogonal grid of streets and avenues in a Manhattan-like city populated by stationary sensor modules at some intersections and mobile robots that can serve as relays of information that the modules excha...
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Consider an orthogonal grid of streets and avenues in a Manhattan-like city populated by stationary sensor modules at some intersections and mobile robots that can serve as relays of information that the modules exchange, where both module-module and module-robot communication is limited to a straight line of sight within the grid. The robots are oblivious and move asynchronously. We present a distributed algorithm that, given the sensor locations as input, moves the robots to suitable locations in the grid so that a connected network of all modules is established. The number of robots that the algorithm uses is worst case optimal.
The max-flow problem (MFP) is one of the most explored problems in the area of combinatorial optimization and it has a wide variety of potential applications in computer networks, especially in Wireless Sensor Network...
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The max-flow problem (MFP) is one of the most explored problems in the area of combinatorial optimization and it has a wide variety of potential applications in computer networks, especially in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In this paper, we propose a WSN-specific solution to MFP based on the well-known push-relabel method. In our solution we provide several techniques and heuristics to implement asynchronous communication, reduce message complexity, support adaptability, and satisfy soft real-time requirements. Because these heuristics are independent, we can adjust the algorithm by applying some heuristics and ignoring the others, according to the application requirements. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the proposed algorithm makes a significant improvement in the case of message and time complexities in comparison with the best existing algorithms. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This brief investigates a distributed composite optimization problem over an undirected network with equality constraints. The optimization problem includes a smooth term and two possibly non-smooth terms. Most existi...
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This brief investigates a distributed composite optimization problem over an undirected network with equality constraints. The optimization problem includes a smooth term and two possibly non-smooth terms. Most existing results are devoted to developing distributed algorithms in a synchronous setting with a global clock, where the agents cannot proceed to the next iteration until the slowest agent completes its update. A new asynchronous distributed primal-dual forward-backward splitting algorithm (AD-PDFBS) is presented to solve this problem. Each agent can compute and communicate independently at different times, for different durations, with the information it has even if the latest information from its neighbors is not yet available. The convergence of AD-PDFBS is proved by transforming the asynchronous algorithm into a fixed-point problem utilizing the operator splitting scheme under bounded delay assumption. Experiment result confirms the effectiveness of AD-PDFBS.
In this paper we derive an asynchronous method for the parallel solution of a class of index-one differential-algebraic systems with initial values. These systems are in the form [GRAPHICS] g(x, y, t) = 0 must be solv...
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In this paper we derive an asynchronous method for the parallel solution of a class of index-one differential-algebraic systems with initial values. These systems are in the form [GRAPHICS] g(x, y, t) = 0 must be solvable with respect to y. This study allows us to give asynchronous extensions of the waveform relaxation method.
Dual decomposition is widely utilized in the distributed optimization of multiagent systems. In practice, the dual decomposition algorithm is desired to admit an asynchronous implementation due to imperfect communicat...
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Dual decomposition is widely utilized in the distributed optimization of multiagent systems. In practice, the dual decomposition algorithm is desired to admit an asynchronous implementation due to imperfect communication, such as time delay and packet drop. In addition, computational errors also exist when the individual agents solve their own subproblems. In this article, we analyze the convergence of the dual decomposition algorithm in the distributed optimization when both the communication asynchrony and the subproblem solution inexactness exist. We find that the interaction between asynchrony and inexactness slows down the convergence rate from O(1/k) to O(1/v/k). Specifically, with a constant step size, the value of the objective function converges to a neighborhood of the optimal value, and the solution converges to a neighborhood of the optimal solution. Moreover, the violation of v/ the constraints diminishes in O(1/ k). Our result generalizes and unifies the existing ones that only consider either asynchrony or inexactness. Finally, numerical simulations validate the theoretical results.
For a suitable set of not necessarily linear operators on a real Hilbert space, such that the set of common fixed points of the operators is nonempty and has an interior point, we construct an asynchronous parallel al...
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For a suitable set of not necessarily linear operators on a real Hilbert space, such that the set of common fixed points of the operators is nonempty and has an interior point, we construct an asynchronous parallel algorithm that leads to a common fixed point in a finite number of steps. This generalizes a result in [13].
This paper considers a stochastic fixed-point iteration where each coordinate is updated with a certain probability and otherwise left unchanged. The iteration is interesting from the viewpoint of parallel distributed...
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This paper considers a stochastic fixed-point iteration where each coordinate is updated with a certain probability and otherwise left unchanged. The iteration is interesting from the viewpoint of parallel distributed computation because the realized sequences belong to the class of asynchronous fixed-point iterations. It is demonstrated with a linear system that the convergence conditions for randomly relaxed iterations are less stringent than their asynchronous counterparts, and that they can illuminate the tightness of the convergence conditions for asynchronous iterations, which are typically worst-case conditions.
In this Comments, an error in Low and Lapsley's article [1] is pointed out. Because of this error, the proof of the Theorem 2 presented in the article is incomplete and some assessments are wrong. In the second pa...
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In this Comments, an error in Low and Lapsley's article [1] is pointed out. Because of this error, the proof of the Theorem 2 presented in the article is incomplete and some assessments are wrong. In the second part of this Comments, the author proposes a correction to this proof.
The High-Level Architecture (HLA), which is the IEEE standard for distributed simulation, defines six service groups. The Time Management (TM) service group ensures a Time-Stamp-Ordered (TSO) message delivery sequence...
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The High-Level Architecture (HLA), which is the IEEE standard for distributed simulation, defines six service groups. The Time Management (TM) service group ensures a Time-Stamp-Ordered (TSO) message delivery sequence and correct time advancement of each simulation component (federate) in a HLA-based distributed simulation application (federation). To control time advancement of a federation, a distributed TM algorithm requires each regulating federate to periodically propagate its local time information to all constrained federates for their respective calculation of the Greatest Available Logical Time (GALT). The time information propagated is called conditional information or unconditional information depending on whether it can be guaranteed to be true conditionally or unconditionally. A traditional distributed TM algorithm can be either synchronous or asynchronous. In general, a synchronous algorithm utilizes conditional information while an asynchronous algorithm utilizes unconditional information. However, both synchronous and asynchronous algorithms have their own drawbacks and thus cannot be used for all federation scenarios. To resolve the drawback of each algorithm, this paper proposes a hybrid TM algorithm by combining synchronous and asynchronous algorithms. The three algorithms have been incorporated into a Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI) and experimental results show that the hybrid algorithm effectively combines the advantages of both synchronous and asynchronous algorithms. We also compare the proposed hybrid TM algorithm with the TM algorithm implemented in the Federated Simulations Development Kit (FDK), which also uses both conditional and unconditional information. The hybrid TM algorithm is more scalable than FDK's TM algorithm with respect to the total number of federates in a federation, because FDK's TM algorithm has the overhead of redundant GALT calculations.
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