An Agent-Based Flexibility Trading Architecture With Scalable And Robust Messaging

We present a multi-agent architecture ranging from lower layer device agents over cluster agents, acting as organizational units, to aggregator agents trading on flexibility market platforms. This architecture's novelty is to allow inter-district flexibility trading and will therefore be a key building block for large-scale integration of renewable energy. As electrical grids are critical infrastructure, properties such as reliability and robustness of the system are of great importance. To tackle this challenge, we propose a generic application layer messaging system enabling robust and scalable communication in Smart Grids.