Yingjie Zhou, N. Maxemchuk, Xiangying Qian, Yasser Mohammed
{"title":"A weighted fair queuing algorithm for charging electric vehicles on a smart grid","authors":"Yingjie Zhou, N. Maxemchuk, Xiangying Qian, Yasser Mohammed","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731041","url":null,"abstract":"We are concerned with charging electric vehicles at home. The energy demand from electric vehicles can increase more rapidly than our ability to increase the generating capacity or the distribution facilities in the electric network. Our objective is to use a smart power distribution algorithm to reduce the inconvenience to electric vehicle owners. When there isn't sufficient capacity to charge all of the vehicles simultaneously, we will select different subsets of vehicles to charge in each 5 minute interval. The smart grid will control a switch on each charger. The order in which we charge the vehicles has a significant effect on the number of vehicles that are delayed when they would like to leave the charging station, and the amount of time that they are delayed. By reducing these measures, electric vehicles can be deployed more rapidly. We compare a weighted fair queuing algorithm for selecting the charging order and compare it with a first-come-first-served algorithm and a round robin charging rule. The weights are selected based on the battery level when vehicles arrive at their charging stations. We assume that there is a correlation between day-to-day driving distances, and charge vehicles that require more charge more rapidly. The three charging rules are evaluated using measured data on the power usage, commuting characteristics, and the distribution of commuting times.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123125400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ward Van Heddeghem, B. Lannoo, D. Colle, M. Pickavet, F. Musumeci, A. Pattavina, F. Idzikowski
{"title":"Power consumption evaluation of circuit-switched versus packet-switched optical backbone networks","authors":"Ward Van Heddeghem, B. Lannoo, D. Colle, M. Pickavet, F. Musumeci, A. Pattavina, F. Idzikowski","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731029","url":null,"abstract":"While telecommunication networks have historically been dominated by a circuit-switched paradigm, the last decades have seen a clear trend towards packet-switched networks. In this paper we evaluate how both paradigms perform in optical backbone networks from a power consumption point of view, and whether the general agreement of circuit switching being more power-efficient holds. We consider artificially generated topologies of various sizes, mesh degrees and-not yet previously explored in this context-transport linerates. We cross-validate our findings with a number of realistic topologies. Our results show that, as a generalization, packet switching can become preferable when the traffic demands are lower than half the transport linerate. We find that an increase in the network node count does not consistently increase the energy savings of circuit switching over packet switching, but is heavily influenced by the mesh degree and (to a minor extent) by the average link length.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126521389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joint information and energy transfer in the spatial domain with channel estimation error","authors":"S. Timotheou, I. Krikidis","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731038","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate a new technique for simultaneous information and energy transfer in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) capabilities. The proposed technique exploits the spatial decomposition of the MIMO channel and uses the eigenchannels either to convey information or to transfer energy. In order to generalize our study, we consider channel estimation error in the decomposition process and we model the interference between the eigenchannels. An optimization problem that minimizes the total transmitted power subject to information and energy constraints is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear program and solved to optimality by a polynomial complexity algorithm developed by exploiting the special characteristics of the problem. Numerical results show that the imperfect channel estimation is beneficial from RF - EH standpoint and is characterized by an optimal (non-zero) value.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116955753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Li, Yanzhi Wang, Shahin Nazarian, Massoud Pedram
{"title":"A nested game-based optimization framework for electricity retailers in the smart grid with residential users and PEVs","authors":"Y. Li, Yanzhi Wang, Shahin Nazarian, Massoud Pedram","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731045","url":null,"abstract":"In the smart grid, real-time pricing policy is an important mechanism for incentivizing the consumers to dynamically change or shift their electricity consumption, thereby improving the reliability of the grid. Retailers are incorporated to the smart grid with distributed control mechanism in order to reduce the amount of communication overhead associated with the direction interaction between utility companies and consumers. The retailer procures electricity from both traditional and renewable energy sources, and sells it to its consumers. The consumers include residential users that can only consume power, and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that can either consume power or supply power stored in its battery to the grid. In this work, a novel four-stage nested game model is proposed to model the interaction of the electricity retailer, utility companies, and consumers. The objective of the retailer is to maximize its overall profit as well as perform frequency regulation, whereas the goal of each consumer is to maximize a predefined utility function. In the game theoretic framework, the retailer should decide the amounts of electricity purchased from the renewable and traditional energy sources, respectively, as well as the real-time pricing scheme for its consumers. The consumers will react to the pricing mechanism and maximize their utility functions by adjusting the electricity demand. The optimal solution of the nested game is provided through: (i) finding the subgame perfect equilibrium (SPE) of all the consumers, and (ii) optimizing the retailer's action using the backward induction method. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed game theoretic modeling and optimization framework.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132513380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Ayhan, A. R. Dhaini, L. Kazovsky, D. Suvakovic, H. Chow
{"title":"Energy-efficient cascaded bit-interleaving protocol for integrated optical access/in-building networks","authors":"T. Ayhan, A. R. Dhaini, L. Kazovsky, D. Suvakovic, H. Chow","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731049","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes and experimentally evaluates the Cascaded Bit-interleaving architecture and protocol, an energy-efficient solution that aims to reduce the power consumption of integrated optical access/in-building networks, while offering high-speed Internet service to end-users. In the new architecture, optical-electrical-optical (OED) regeneration is employed at the interface between the access and in-building networks, and downstream frames are generated at the central office using the two-stage bit-interleaving scheme. The users' network nodes only process the data destined for them without any buffering at a lower clock rate than the aggregate PON rate, thereby significantly reducing their energy consumption. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the proof of concept and show that the power consumption of the access/in-building network can be significantly reduced when the proposed cascaded bit-interleaving protocol is employed.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132104870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What do we need to do to “green” data-center networks? A fundamental perspective","authors":"P. Grover","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731033","url":null,"abstract":"While traditional information theory has driven the choice of communication strategies for most of today's communication systems, it focuses almost exclusively on minimizing the transmit power of the system. In modern short-distance applications, including high-speed data-center networks, the energy consumed in the circuitry to enable reliable between servers can dominate the transmit energy across the links. Recent theoretical results and empirical observations show that in such situations, operating close to the traditional information-theoretic limits can be highly inefficient from a system-level energy-perspective. In this position paper, we use these results to propose a way forward for obtaining energy-efficient strategies for future Ethernet, including the NGBASE Ethernet which is currently being standardized. We also introduce our Total Energy Minimization platform, TotEM, that will collect information to enable communication system designers to make the most energy-efficient choices.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125229811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Kaddour, E. Vivier, M. Pischella, L. Mroueh, P. Martins
{"title":"Power control in opportunistic and efficient resource block allocation algorithms for green LTE uplink networks","authors":"F. Kaddour, E. Vivier, M. Pischella, L. Mroueh, P. Martins","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731021","url":null,"abstract":"The energy efficiency in wireless networks is currently a central concern of research. We propose in this paper a new energy efficiency scheme which allocates the mobile's transmission power in function of the allocated Resource Blocks (RB) and the channel conditions of the user on the allocated RBs. We focus on the energy efficiency of the Opportunistic and Efficient Resource Block Allocation (OEA) algorithm and its variant adapted to the Quality of Service (QoS) of the traffics: the QoS based OEA for LTE uplink networks. The OEA and the QoS based OEA allocate the RBs to UEs efficiently and with respect to the SC-FDMA constraints, such that, for one user, contiguous RBs are allocated, and the same Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) is used over the whole allocated RBs. Once RBs are allocated to UEs, power control is then applied to the mobile's transmission power considering the MCS used and the channel conditions. This energy efficiency allows users to achieve the same throughput than before the power control and does not affect the MCS selection established at the RB allocation step. This new scheme allows the transmission of a high number of bits per Joule.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131129227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing a governor policy for energy saving and heat control in frequency-scaling green routers","authors":"A. Lombardo, Vincenzo Riccobene, G. Schembra","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731036","url":null,"abstract":"Energy costs for telecommunications networks are mainly due to the consumption of both devices and cooling facilities. For this reason the target of this paper is to propose an analytical discrete-time Markov model that allows green router designers to both evaluate performance of temperature-constrained green routers and design Governor policies to achieve the best trade-off between quality of service and energy saving in respect of a given target on the working temperature. The proposed model is applied to a case study to show how it can be used to the above purposes.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128042272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sajjadul Latif, Xavier N Fernando, A. Fung, F. Janabi-Sharifi
{"title":"A greener MAC layer protocol for smart home wireless sensor networks","authors":"Sajjadul Latif, Xavier N Fernando, A. Fung, F. Janabi-Sharifi","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731047","url":null,"abstract":"The wireless sensor network (WSN) is an important element on many advanced, energy efficient data acquisition (DAQ), and control systems. Sleep/wake-up scheduling and network overhead are some of the major burdens to achieve energy efficient WSNs. In this paper, an energy efficient communication algorithm is proposed for smart home sensor networks. The proposed approach targets the wasted energy during the idle listening, collision, and overhearing processes. A three-tier Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol has been developed to minimize the total energy consumption of the network. The new protocol reduces the total energy requirement by each node, facilitates confirmed communication for steady traffic, and gives adaptive control during varying traffic load. Overall, the proposed MAC protocol shows better performance than conventional WSN protocols.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"24 23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128460014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TAG — We're it (the IEEE 802.24 Smart Grid TAG)","authors":"Tim Godfrey, C. Powell, B. Rolfe, S. Sasaki","doi":"10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OnlineGreenCom.2013.6731044","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an informative overview of the recently formed IEEE 802.24 Smart Grid Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and the role of IEEE 802 communications standards in Smart Grid. Communications are an integral part in the definition of the Smart Grid. Standards and recommendations developed by the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) and its Working Groups are a critical element in data communications for the smart grid.","PeriodicalId":152857,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127694449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}