Scalability analysis on the smart grid fast automated demand response aggregation Web services for widely distributed building facilities

Abstract

In this paper, we modeled an aggregation communication server of the Fast Automated Demand Response (FastADR) system using an M/M/1 queuing system. Assuming that a very large number of FastADR participating BEMS gateways are widely distributed, scalability of aggregation communication performance was estimated by the M/M/1 transient analysis. Validity of our analysis model was confirmed by realistic wide‐area communication emulation system in the laboratory. Our scalability analysis has shown that at least parallel 25 aggregation systems will be necessary to realize expected communication time of approximately 30 s for an example of FastADR aggregation of 100 MW reduced demand.