University of Twente Student Theses
Gossip-based Communication for Distributed Energy Management
Maan, G.C. (2024) Gossip-based Communication for Distributed Energy Management.
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| Abstract: | This thesis focuses on the communication layer of Smart Grids and investigates how a distributed network architecture and gossip-based communication can aid the implementation of Demand-Side Management (DSM). A distributed network architecture has the advantage of lacking single point of failures and communication bottlenecks, making it a robust, reliable, and scalable solution for the implementation of a communication network. This thesis investigates how the convergence speed of gossip-based communication inside a distributed network architecture can be improved with the design of the communication algorithm, and how knowledge about network properties can be utilized for this purpose. The contributions of this work can be summarized as follows: Firstly, this thesis establishes a framework to classify gossip protocols. Secondly, this thesis helps to understand the operation of unidirectional gossip protocols, and provides a deeper insight in how the diffusion matrix shares influence the convergence speed of a network. Furthermore, this thesis implies that degree centrality is not sufficient to improve the convergence speed of a network. Lastly, this thesis identifies significant factors that affect the convergence speed of a network, which are important for the design of communication mechanisms operating with timing restrictions in future distributed energy networks. These factors are the network density, the expected variation of the input value set and the correlation with the optimization algorithm. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 53 electrotechnology, 54 computer science |
| Programme: | Embedded Systems MSc (60331) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/103774 |
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