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Distributed scheduling in smart grid communications with dynamic power demands and intermittent renewable energy resources

  • Shengrong Bu
  • , F. Richard Yu
  • , Peter X. Liu
  • , Peng Zhang
  • Carleton University

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Abstract

Concerns about climate change, rising fossil fuel prices and energy security have spurred interest in renewable energy generation and smart grid. Due to the dynamic power demands and intermittent renewable energy resources, optimal scheduling of power generation systems is important to minimize cost and green house gas emissions, and to avoid blackouts in smart grid. In this paper, we propose a distributed stochastic scheduling scheme in smart grid communications with dynamic power demands and intermittent renewable energy resources. Due to meteorological instability and complex system dynamics, hidden Markov models are used in modeling renewable energy resources. We formulate the stochastic scheduling problem as a partially observable Markov decision process multi-armed bandit problem. A value iteration algorithm is used to solve the above problem. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2011 Workshops
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2011 Workshops - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: Jun 5 2011Jun 9 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)0536-1486

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2011 Workshops
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period06/5/1106/9/11

Keywords

  • renewable energy
  • Scheduling
  • smart grid
  • Stochastic systems

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