Data scheduling based on pricing strategy and priority over smart grid

Smart Grid has emerged as the next generation power systems. However, the classical scheduling methods are still not suitable for describing the exact feature of data transmission over smart grid because of its different properties from other conventional power systems. Hence, in this paper, by considering both consumers’ and power supplies’ perspective, different pricing strategies are presented based on user priority and load rate. And the corresponding novel scheduling algorithms are also proposed. The simulation experiments are carried out by comparing the proposed algorithms with other existing scheduling algorithms. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.