Blockchain-Based Energy Trading and Load Balancing Using Contract Theory and Reputation in a Smart Community

【Author】 Yahaya, Adamu Sani; Javaid, Nadeem; Javed, Muhammad Umar; Shafiq, Muhammad; Khan, Wazir Zada; Aalsalem, Mohammed Y.

【Source】IEEE ACCESS

【影响因子】3.476

【Abstract】The rapid deployment of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and the integration of renewable energy sources have ameliorated the existing power systems and contributed to the development of greener smart communities. However, load balancing problems, security threats, privacy leakage issues, etc., remain unresolved. Many blockchain-based approaches have been used in literature to solve the aforementioned challenges. However, they are not sufficient to obtain satisfactory results because of the inefficient energy management methods and time-intensiveness of the primitive cryptographic executions on the network devices. In this paper, an efficient and secure blockchain-based Energy Trading (ET) model is proposed. It leverages the contract theory, incentive mechanism, and a reputation system for information asymmetry scenario. In order to motivate the ET entities to trade energy locally and EVs to participate in smart energy management, the proposed incentive provisioning mechanism plays a vital role. Besides, a reputation system improves the reliability and efficiency of the system and discourages the blockchain nodes from acting maliciously. A novel consensus algorithm, i.e., Proof of Work based on Reputation (PoWR), is proposed to reduce transaction confirmation latency and block creation time. Moreover, a shortest route algorithm, i.e., the Dijkstra algorithm, is implemented in order to reduce the traveling distance and energy consumption of the EVs during ET. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated using peak to average ratio, social welfare, utility of local aggregator, etc., as performance metrics. Moreover, privacy and security analyses of the system are also presented.

【Keywords】Blockchain; Security; Privacy; Computational modeling; Smart cities; Load management; Peak to average power ratio; Blockchain; contract theory; demand response; energy; ET; EVs; information asymmetry; optimization; reputations

【发表时间】2020

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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