Exploiting Game Theoretic Based Coordination Among Appliances in Smart Homes for Efficient Energy Utilization

Muhammad Hassan Rahim, Adia Khalid, Nadeem Javaid, Mahmood Ashraf, Khursheed Aurangzeb and Abdulaziz Saud Altamrah
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Muhammad Hassan Rahim: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Adia Khalid: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Nadeem Javaid: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Mahmood Ashraf: Department of Computer Science, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Khursheed Aurangzeb: College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz Saud Altamrah: College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-25

Abstract: In this paper, a demand side management (DSM) scheme is used to make energy utilization more efficient. The DSM scheme encourages the consumer to change energy utilization patterns which benefit the utility. In return, the consumer gets some incentives from the utility. The objectives of the proposed DSM system include: electricity bill reduction, reduced peak to average ratio (PAR), and maximization of consumer comfort. In the proposed system, the electrical devices are scheduled by using elephant herding optimization (EHO) and adaptive cuckoo search (ACS) algorithms. Moreover, a new algorithm called hybrid elephant adaptive cuckoo (HEAC) is proposed which uses the features of both former algorithms. A comparison of these algorithms is also presented in terms of three performance parameters. The HEAC shows better performance as compared to EHO and ACS which is evident from the simulation results. Different electricity tariffs are introduced by the utility to provide incentives to the consumers. A regional based time of use (ToU) tariff is used to make the system effective for different types of regions. Moreover, this enables the consumers to act according to the regional environment. The coordination can play a very important role in cost reduction as well as in consumer comfort maximization. The coordination is incorporated among the electrical devices by using cooperative game theory (GT) and dynamic programming (DP). Extensive simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in terms of electricity utilization cost, PAR reduction, and consumer comfort maximization.

Keywords: smart grid; demand side management (DSM); heuristic techniques; game theory (GT); coordination, embedded system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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