AIMD-like algorithms for charging electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles

Motivated by the expected increase of the penetration level of Electric Vehicles (EVs), and the wider usage of renewable energies, this paper investigates policy to share the available power to charge EVs. This paper follows the preliminary work [1] of the authors, where AIMD (Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease) [2] based techniques were first proposed to charge EVs in a distributed way. The same mathematical framework is adopted in this paper, but the algorithms are tailored to deal with new scenarios of interest, as illustrated in detail in Section III.