ABSTRACT

                   A communication-based load scheduling protocol is proposed for in-home appliances

connected over a home area network. Specifically, a joint access and scheduling approach for

appliances is developed to enable in-home appliances to coordinate power usage so that the total

energy demand for the home is kept below a target value protocol considers both “schedulable”

appliances which have

delay flexibility, and “critical” appliances which consume power as they desire. An optimization

problem is formulated for the energy management controller to decide the target values for each

time slot, by incorporating the variation of electricity prices and distributed wind power

uncertainty.