As part of my job, I had access to all the data communication switches that control the electrical grid for the Chicago area.
It is shown that consensus is achieved even if the exchange of information between the agents suffers from time-varying communication delays and switching communication topologies.
This environment can be encountered in several situations in telecommunications including multi-class communication switches.
This paper describes the design of a centralized controller/scheduler for a communication switch with a banyan switching fabric built using unbuffered switches.
If the person suggests that the communication switch to phone calls and texting asap, be alarmed.
It is shown that both static and dynamic coordinations can be reached even when the communication is switching.
However, for those emerging applications with big data-flows transmission, more energy consumption could be consumed by communication links, switching and aggregation elements.
This paper is concerned with discrete-time distributed average-consensus with limited communication data-rate and switching communication topologies.
The proposed distributed consensus method can be used to discover global information and implement pinning synchronization, and it can also meet the requirement to adapt to changes in the communication network, such as communication line switches or agent plug-and-play operations.
Table 2 Simulation cases Case Power supply-demand mismatch Communication topology changes A Load demand changing Fix communication topology B DGs fluctuation Communication link switches on C Load demand changing & DGs fluctuation A new agent named A5 plugs in.
In Case C, the agent 5 marked as A5 unplugs from the DC microgrid and its corresponding communication link switches off accordingly at t = 1 s; as a result, the communication topology of the simulated DC microgrid changes, as shown in Fig. 7.
