Title
Bidding for Preferred Timing: An Auction Design for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Scheduling
Abstract
This paper considers an electric vehicle charging scheduling setting where vehicle users can reserve charging time in advance at a charging station. In this setting, users are allowed to explicitly express their preferences over different start times and the length of charging periods for charging their vehicles. The goal is to compute optimal charging schedules that maximize the social welfare of all users given their time preferences and the state of charge of their vehicles. Assuming that users are self-interested agents who may behave strategically to advance their own benefits rather than the social welfare of all agents, we propose an iterative auction, which computes high-quality schedules and, at the same time, preserves users' privacy by progressively eliciting their preferences as necessary. We conduct a game theoretical analysis on the proposed iterative auction to prove its individual rationality and the best response for agents. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that the iterative auction can achieve high-efficiency solutions with a partial value information. Additionally, we explore the relationship between scheduling efficiency and information revelation in the auction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TITS.2019.2926336
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Electric vehicle (EV),charging scheduling,iterative bidding,start time,preference revelation,social welfare
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1524-9050
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luyang Hou110.70
Chun Wang26313.81
Jun Yan317913.72