%0 Conference Paper %A Singh, N. %A Elamvazuthi, I. %A Nallagownden, P. %A Badruddin, N. %A Ousta, F. %A Jangra, A. %D 2021 %F scholars:15491 %I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. %K Decision making; Electric power transmission networks; Network layers; Network routing; Quality of service; Reinforcement learning; Reliability; Smart power grids, Agent based; Bellman-Ford; Microgrid; Multi agent; Network faults; Network reliability; Reinforcement learnings; Routings; Smart grid; Smart Micro Grids, Multi agent systems %R 10.1109/ICIAS49414.2021.9642596 %T Smart Microgrid QoS and Network Reliability Performance Improvement using Reinforcement Learning %U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/15491/ %X A Smart Microgrid consists of physical and communication layered networks. It provides communication services to each connected component and resource through multi-agent system. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning based methodology, Q-reinforcement Learning based Multi-agent based Bellmanford Routing (QRL-MABR), using multiple agents communicating over the microgrid network. It strengthens the decision-making core of the microgrid by improving Quality of service and network reliability of the smart microgrid. The performance analysis of the algorithm is tested over small-scale IEEE microgrid models i.e. IEEE 9 and IEEE 14. The work is tested and compared with four routing oriented decision-making algorithms, Open shortest path first (OSPF), Optimized link state routing (OLSR), Routing information protocol (RIP) and Multi-agent based Bellmanford routing (MABR). The results validate the productivity and learning capabilities of the proposed QRL-MABR algorithm. © 2021 IEEE. %Z cited By 1; Conference of 8th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, ICIAS 2021 ; Conference Date: 13 July 2021 Through 15 July 2021; Conference Code:175661