QoS management in smart grids: a Markovian approach

Autor: Marcelino S. da Silva, Carlos R. L. Francês, João C. W. A. Costa, Diego L. Cardoso, Nandamudi. L. Vijaykumar, Solon V. de Carvalho
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Applications, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 122-138
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2179-1074
DOI: 10.1590/S2179-10742014000200002
Popis: In Smart Grids, a variety of new applications are available to users of the electrical system (from consumers to the electric system operators and market operators). Some applications such as the SCADA systems, which control generators or substations, have consequences, for example, with a communication delay. The result of a failure to deliver a control message due to noncompliance of the time constraint can be catastrophic. On the other hand, applications such as smart metering of consumption have fewer restrictions. Since each type of application has different quality of service requirements (importance, delay, and amount of data to transmit) to transmit its messages, the policy to control and share the resources of the data communication network must consider them. In this paper Markov Decision Process Theory is employed to determine optimal policies to explore as much as possible the availability of throughput in order to transmit all kinds of messages, considering the quality of service requirements defined to each kind of message. First a non-preemptive model is formulated and after that a preemptive model is derived. Numerical results are used to compare FIFO, non-preemptive and preemptive policies.
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