Search results for "modeling"

A load model for EV parking lots

2012

In the next years, electric mobility will be one of the issues electric utilities will have to face. The detailed modeling of the electric load generated by the presence of Electric Vehicles, EV, parking lots will be essential to simulate the different working conditions of new distribution systems. Also the detailed modeling will allow to deduce technical and economical aspects, allowing Distribution Systems Operators to devise the right incentives for EV customers. Such as, or maybe more than, residential loading the EV loading is strongly variable because it is connected to the human behavior, the modeling thus has to include stochastic terms. Moreover, to get realistic load profile for …

An integrated platform for electrical modeling of microgrids

2012

Aggregates of loads and generators working coordinated, called microgrids, are new entities appearing at distribution level. In this paper, an integrated platform for energy modeling of microgrids is proposed. The platform allows the evaluation of heat and electrical energy balance terms and of the steady state features of the distribution system supplying the grid. The interface is friendly and allows the positioning of different items, such as co-generators, photovoltaic and wind units, Electric Vehicles parking lots and buildings. The platform is built in Matlab while the interface in Java. Each component of the model can be placed using a CAD facility and each ‘node’ is characterized by…

Cross-Technology WiFi/ZigBee Communications: Dealing With Channel Insertions and Deletions

2016

In this letter, we show how cross-technology interference can be exploited to set up a low-rate bidirectional communication channel between heterogeneous WiFi and ZigBee networks. Because of the environment noise and receivers' implementation, the cross-technology channel can be severely affected by insertions and deletions of symbols, whose effects need to be taken into account by the coding scheme and communication protocol.

Correlated channel model for terrestrial Free Space Optics: performance analysis of rateless codes

2012

We describe a novel correlated channel model able to predict random temporal fluctuations of optical signal irradiance caused by scintillation. With regards to the same channel, we also report simulation results on the error mitigation performance of Luby-Transform and Raptor codes.

Luby Transform Performance Tests on Time-Correlated Channel Model for Geo Free Space Optics Downlinks

2012

Performance Investigation of Fountaine Codes on a Simulated Terrestrial Free Space Optical Channel

2012

Optical wireless GEO satellite-to-ground downlinks: rateless codes as solution for scintillation fading

2013

Scintillation fading can corrupt a satellite-to-ground optical wireless links with burst errors. Rateless codes, suitable for erasure channel, are able to eliminate or to reduce these communication errors. We analyzed the performances of three different rateless codes in a simulated Geo satellite-to-ground downlink.

Robust and Model Predictive Control applied to DC/DC converters and Shunt Active Filters

Al giorno d'oggi, la domanda di energia elettrica incrementa giorno per giorno. La gente spesso la usa con superficialità sottovalutando quanto essa sia preziosa. Fino a qualche decennio fa, la generazione di energia elettrica era centralizzata e dipendeva dallo sfruttamento delle risorse fossili. La limitatezza delle fonti fossili, insieme agli effetti ambientali del loro sfruttamento, hanno portato la ricerca a trovare vettori energetici alternativi poco inquinanti e facilmente reperibili. Lo sviluppo e la diffusione delle fonti energetiche rinnovabili hanno sancito la fine di una rete elettrica centralizzata a favore di una nuova idea di rete elettrica di tipo distribuita che permette di…

A Platform for the Evaluation of Distributed Reputation Algorithms

2018

In distributed environments, where unknown entities cooperate to achieve complex goals, intelligent techniques for estimating agents' truthfulness are required. Distributed Reputation Management Systems (RMSs) allow to accomplish this task without the need for a central entity that may represent a bottleneck and a single point of failure. The design of a distributed RMS is a challenging task due to a multitude of factors that could impact on its performances. In order to support the researcher in evaluating the RMS robustness against security attacks since its beginning design phase, in this work we present a distributed simulation environment that allows to model both the agent's behaviors…

Adaptable data models for scalable Ambient Intelligence scenarios

2011

In most real-life scenarios for Ambient Intelligence, the need arises for scalable simulations that provide reliable sensory data to be used in the preliminary design and test phases. This works present an approach to modeling data generated by a hybrid simulator for wireless sensor networks, where virtual nodes coexist with real ones. We apply our method to real data available from a public repository and show that we can compute reliable models for the quantities measured at a given reference site, and that such models are portable to different environments, so as to obtain a complete, scalable and reliable testing environment.