A Blockchain-Enabled Ecosystem for Distributed Electricity Trading in Smart City

Trading agents for the smart electricity grid

The vision of the Smart Grid includes the creation of intelligent electricity supply networks to allow efficient use of energy resources, reduce carbon emissions and are robust to failures. One of the key assumptions underlying this vision is that it will be possible to manage the trading of electricity between homes and micro-grids while coping with the inherent real-time dynamism in electrici...

A Competitive Simulation Platform for Electricity Trading in Smart Grids

Block-VN: A Distributed Blockchain Based Vehicular Network Architecture in Smart City

In recent decades, the ad hoc network for vehicles has been a core network technology to provide comfort and security to drivers in vehicle environments. However, emerging applications and services require major changes in underlying network models and computing that require new road network planning. Meanwhile, blockchain widely known as one of the disruptive technologies has emerged in recent...

Distributed Proportional-Fairness Control in MicroGrids via Blockchain Smart Contracts

Residential microgrids (MGs) may host a large number of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). The strategy that maximizes the revenue for each individual DER is the one in which the DER operates at capacity, injecting all available power into the grid. However, when the DER penetration is high and the consumption low, this strategy may lead to power surplus that causes voltage increase over reco...

Market Design for Trading with Blockchain Technology

An intrinsic feature of blockchain technology is the so-called distributed ledger, which involves maintaining a decentralized record of all transactions for a security. A distributed ledger allows anyone with access to it to identify asset holdings by (anonymous) identifiers. In this paper, we argue that the mapping between identifiers and end-investors should be a market design choice. We capt...