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Stay or Switch: Competitive Online Algorithms for Energy Plan Selection in Energy Markets with Retail Choice
Jianing Zhai, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Minghua Chen
Energy markets with retail choice enable customers to switch energy plans among competitive retail suppliers. Despite the promising benefits of more affordable prices and better sa…
On the Min-Max-Delay Problem: NP-completeness, Algorithm, and Integrality Gap
Qingyu Liu, Lei Deng, Haibo Zeng +1
We study a delay-sensitive information flow problem where a source streams information to a sink over a directed graph G(V,E) at a fixed rate R possibly using multiple paths to min…
Cost Minimizing Online Algorithms for Energy Storage Management with Worst-case Guarantee
Chi-Kin Chau, Guanglin Zhang, Minghua Chen
The fluctuations of electricity prices in demand response schemes and intermittency of renewable energy supplies necessitate the adoption of energy storage in microgrids. However,…
Dynamic Provisioning in Next-Generation Data Centers with On-site Power Production
Jinlong Tu, Lian Lu, Minghua Chen +1
The critical need for clean and economical sources of energy is transforming data centers that are primarily energy consumers to also energy producers. We focus on minimizing the o…