Containment-Based Multiple PCC Voltage Regulation Strategy for Communication Link and Sensor Faults

The distributed AC microgrid(MG) voltage restoration problem has been extensively studied. Still, many existing secondary voltage control strategies neglect the co-regulation of the voltage at the point of common coupling(PCC) in the AC multi-MG system(MMS). When an MMS consists of sub-MGs connected in series, power flow between the sub-MGs is not possible if the PCC voltage regulation relies on traditional consensus control objectives. In addition, communication faults and sensor faults are inevitable in the MMS. Therefore, a resilient voltage regulation strategy based on containment control is proposed.First, the feedback linearization technique allows us to deal with the nonlinear distributed generation(DG) dynamics, where the PCC regulation problem of an AC MG is transformed into an output feedback tracking problem for a linear multi-agent system(MAS) containing nonlinear dynamics. This process is an indispensable pre-processing in control algorithm design. Moreover, considering the unavailability of full-state measurements and the potential faults present in the sensors, a novel follower observer is designed to handle communication faults. Based on this, a controller based on containment control is designed to achieve voltage regulation. In regulating multiple PCC voltages to a reasonable upper and lower limit, a voltage difference exists between sub-MGs to achieve power flow. In addition, the secondary control algorithm avoids using global information of directed communication network and fault boundaries for communication link and sensor faults. Finally, the simulation results verify the performance of the proposed strategy.

Model and Implementation of Communication Link Management Supporting High Availability

Despite the rapid evolution in all aspects of computer technology, both the computer hardware and software are prone to numerous failure conditions. In this paper, we analyzed the characteristic of a computer system and the methods of constructing a system, proposed a communication link management model supporting high availability for network applications, Which will greatly increase the high availability of network applications. Then we elaborated on heartbeat or service detect, fail-over, service take-over, switchback and error recovery process of the model. In the process of constructing the communication link, we implemented the link management and service take-over with high availability requirement, and discussed the state and the state transition of building the communication link between the hosts, depicted the message transfer and the start of timer. At Last, we applied the designed high availability system to a network billing system, and showed how the system was constructed and implemented, which perfectly satisfied the system requirements. Key words high availability - service take-over - fail-over - communication link management CLC number TP 393 Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60132030)Biography: Luo Juan (1974-), female, Ph. D candidate, research direction: high speed network and information security.

A fully distributed robust optimal control approach for air-conditioning systems considering uncertainties of communication link in IoT-enabled building automation systems

Internet of Things(IoT)technologies are increasingly implemented in buildings as the cost-effective smart sens-ing infrastructure of building automation systems(BASs).They are also dispersed computing resources for novel distributed optimal control approaches.However,wireless communication networks are critical to fulfill these tasks with the performance influenced by inherent uncertainties in networks,e.g.,unpredictable occurrence of link failures.Centralized and hierarchical distributed approaches are vulnerable against link failure,while the robustness of fully distributed approaches depends on the algorithms adopted.This study therefore proposes a fully distributed robust optimal control approach for air-conditioning systems considering uncertainties of com-munication link in IoT-enabled BASs.The distributed algorithm is adopted that agents know their out-neighbors only.Agents directly coordinate with the connected neighbors for global optimization.Tests are conducted to test and validate the proposed approach by comparing with existing approaches,i.e.,the centralized,the hierarchical distributed and the fully distributed approaches.Results show that different approaches are vulnerable against to uncertainties of communication link to different extents.The proposed approach always guarantees the optimal control performance under normal conditions and conditions with link failures,verifying its high robustness.It also has low computation complexity and high optimization efficiency,thus applicable on IoT-enabled BASs.

Performance Metrics and Delay Thresholds for Multi-Link Cluster Monitoring in Seismic Profession

Seismic cluster nodes can be monitored by monitoring system,but thresholds for link failure alarm in monitoring systems are not determined presently,especially in different types of cluster links.Communication link types are discussed in seismic profession.By analyzing the characteristics of various links,the main performance metric,network latency,was proposed,which influenced states of communication links and gave the monitoring results deviation formula for judging the cluster monitoring system at different delay thresholds settings based on multiple-link delay error ratio analysis algorithm we offered.From the final experimental data of the monitoring system,fault alarm thresholds settings were posed under five different communication links,which had the instruction significance to the cluster monitoring in seismic profession.

Efficiency Effect of Obstacle Margin on Line-of-Sight in Wireless Networks

Line-of-sight clarity and assurance are essential because they are considered the golden rule in wireless network planning,allowing the direct propagation path to connect the transmitter and receiver and retain the strength of the signal to be received.Despite the increasing literature on the line of sight with different scenarios,no comprehensive study focuses on the multiplicity of parameters and basic concepts that must be taken into account when studying such a topic as it affects the results and their accuracy.Therefore,this research aims to find limited values that ensure that the signal reaches the future efficiently and enhances the accuracy of these values’results.We have designed MATLAB simulation and programming programs by Visual Basic.NET for a semi-realistic communication system.It includes all the basic parameters of this system,taking into account the environment’s diversity and the characteristics of the obstacle between the transmitting station and the receiving station.Then we verified the correctness of the system’s work.Moreover,we begin by analyzing and studying multiple and branching cases to achieve the goal.We get several values from the results,which are finite values,which are a useful reference for engineers and designers of wireless networks.

Advantages of solitonic shape pulses for full-optical wireless communication links

We propose the use of a power pulse shape of the widely known optical soliton, corresponding to the hyperbolic secant square function, for both conventional atmospheric optical communication systems and, especially, for new full-optical wireless communications. We analyze the performance of the proposed pulse in terms of peak-to-average optical power ratio （PAOPR） and bit error rate （BER）. During the analysis, we compare the proposed pulse shape against conventional rectangular and Gaussian pulse shapes with reduced duty cycle. Results show the noticeable superiority of the proposed pulse for atmospheric optical links.