A Power Route Reservation System toward Energy-on-Demand Home Networking

Energy-on-Demand home networking is a newly proposed paradigm, by which electric power is supplied to appliances and devices, in response to explicit requests. Energy-onDemand is especially effective when multiple power sources can be used in a house. In order to utilize the power from multiple sources, it is needed to get the best matching between power sources and powered devices. We focus on the following points: a power flow can be treated as an end-toend flow of the Internet, observance of instantaneous power limitation can be treated as bandwidth management of the Internet QoS. In this paper, we propose a Power Route Reservation System. It makes an end-to-end path from a power source to a power consuming device, and enables reservation of a path explicitly. This reservation is done based on the same protocols such as Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) in the Internet. This system will make it possible to keep a limit of total consumption of instantaneous power in a house even demand in the house approach the limit.