Geographic GReedy Routing with ACO Recovery Strategy GRACO

Chtourou²,

IREC2015 the Sixth International Renewable Energy Congress

2015

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The Smart Grid (SG) incorporates communication networks to the conventional electricity system in order to intelligently integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) and allow for demand side management. The move to Smart grid in developing countries has to cope with great disparities of ICT infrastructures even within the same city. Besides, individual DERs are often too small to be allowed access to energy market, likewise power utilities are unable to effectively control and manage small DERs. We propose the use of affordable and scalable wireless communication technology to aggregate geographically sparse DERs into a single virtual power plant. The enrollment of prosumers in the VPP is conditional to financial performance of the plant. Thus, the VPPs are dynamic and are expected to scale up as more and more prosumers are attracted by their financial benefits. the communication network has to follow this progression and therefore to be scalable and rapidly deploy-able.

Section: B Overview Of Gracomentioning

confidence: 98%

“…GRACO [18] is a geographic routing algorithm that combines a pheromone-assisted greedy forwarding mode and an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) based recovery mode. In the beginning, GRACO makes the routing decision using geographic greedy forwarding strategy [14].…”

Section: B Overview Of Gracomentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance and applicability of a new geographic routing protocol for virtual power plants

Chtourou²,

IREC2015 the Sixth International Renewable Energy Congress

2015

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“…Geographic GReedy routing with ACO recovery strategy (GRACO) [14] combines a modified greedy forwarding and a recovery strategy based on swarm intelligence. In the beginning, GRACO makes the routing decision using geographic greedy forwarding strategy [11].…”

Section: B Overview Of Gracomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The performance of GRACO was compared to the greedy-face-greedy (GFG) routing algorithm [15]. Simulations results presented in [14], show that GRACO outperforms GFG in term of end-to-end delay, data delivery cost and hop count. Besides, GRACO provides a high data delivery rate.…”

Section: B Overview Of Gracomentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographic routing protocol for peer-to-peer smart grid neighborhood area network

Chtourou

2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)

2015

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The distribution segment of the power system is of great importance in the smart grid (SG). The deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support conventional grid will solve legacy problems that used to prevent implementation of smart services such as smart metering, Demand Side Management (DSM) or the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) within the SG. In this contribution, GRACO, a new geographic routing algorithm is proposed to support exploitation of SG full potential. We demonstrate, through simulations, the effectiveness of GRACO in terms of scalability, peer-to-peer routing, end-to-end delay and delivery rate.

“…GRACO [34] is a geographic routing algorithm that combines a pheromone-assisted greedy forwarding mode and an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) based recovery mode. In the beginning, GRACO makes the routing decision using geographic greedy forwarding strategy [33].…”

Section: B Overview Of Gracomentioning

confidence: 99%

A scalable geographic routing protocol for virtual power plant communications

Chtourou²,

2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)

2015

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ICT is an enabling technology for the integration of distributed energy resources and storage (DERS) within the power grid as well as implementation for innovative services such as demand side management (DSM) and demand response (DR). Nevertheless, individual DERS are too small to be allowed access to energy market, likewise utilities are unable to effectively control and manage small DERS. Virtual power plants are a concept, that can solve this sparsity problem, they attempt to aggregate DERS to present them to the rest of the power grid as a unique technical and/or commercial entity. This contribution deals with ICT for the VPPs. It presents a novel geographic routing protocol that is able to support different control strategies for the VPPs and accommodate their dynamic structure with seamless enrollment and dis-enrollment of prosumers.