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- Title
Complete resource pooling of a load-balancing policy for a network of battery swapping stations.
- Authors
Sloothaak, Fiona; Cruise, James; Shneer, Seva; Vlasiou, Maria; Zwart, Bert
- Abstract
To reduce carbon emission in the transportation sector, there is currently a steady move taking place to an electrified transportation system. This brings about various issues for which a promising solution involves the construction and operation of a battery swapping infrastructure rather than in-vehicle charging of batteries. In this paper, we study a closed Markovian queueing network that allows for spare batteries under a dynamic arrival policy. We propose a provisioning rule for the capacity levels and show that these lead to near-optimal resource utilization, while guaranteeing good quality-of-service levels for electric vehicle users. Key in the derivations is to prove a state-space collapse result, which in turn implies that performance levels are as good as if there would have been a single station with an aggregated number of resources, thus achieving complete resource pooling.
- Subjects
QUEUEING networks; CARBON emissions; STORAGE batteries; MARKOV processes
- Publication
Queueing Systems, 2021, Vol 99, Issue 1/2, p65
- ISSN
0257-0130
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11134-021-09707-w