A Scalable Interdependent Multi-Issue Negotiation Protocol for Energy Exchange

To address We present a novel negotiation protocol to facilitate this challenge, Alam et al. [2013b] presented a protocol to energy exchange between off-grid homes that facilitate negotiation over energy exchange. Their protocol are equipped with renewable energy generation and restricts the type and number of offers such that negotiation electricity storage. Our protocol imposes restrictions leads to a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium (SPNE). However, over negotiation such that it reduces the complex their protocol only allows point-to-point communication interdependent multi-issue negotiation to one and relies on a fully connected network topology (i.e., where agents have a strategy profile in subgame each home is connected to all other homes in the community) perfect Nash equilibrium. We show that our protocol whereby the number of connections and messages exchanged; is concurrent, scalable and; under certain conditions; grow quadratically with the number of connected leads to Pareto-optimal outcomes.