Analysis of the IEC 61850 Protocol when used for communication during Maintenance Operations in an Electrical Substation Grid
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Authors
njova, dion
ogudo, kingsley
Umenne, Patrice
Issue Date
2020-09-13
Type
Article
Language
en
Keywords
IEC 61850 , Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED’s) , GOOSE messages , Buszone operation
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Abstract
During Substation maintenance a bay is taken out
of service, tested and during testing traffic is generated on the
Substation Communication Network (SCN) in a power utility. A
model of a Substation Communication Network that is using the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 protocol
has been modeled in Optimized Network Engineering Tool
(OPNET). IEC 61850 is a protocol that can be used in a power
utility to provide interoperability between different vendors of
Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED’s). Most of the IED’s sold by
manufacturers for power utility networks support IEC 61850
protocol. The model has three scenarios and they are normal
operation of a Substation, maintenance in a Substation and
Buszone operation at a Substation. In all the scenarios packet end
to end delay of GOOSE, GSSE, SV and MMS messages are
monitored. The throughput from the IED under maintenance and
the throughput at the Substation RTU end is monitored in the
Model. The design of the Substation Communication Network
using IEC 61850 will assist when trying to predict the behavior of
the network with regards to this specific protocol during
maintenance and when there are faults in the communication
network or IED’s.
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Citation
https://doi.org/10.1145/3415088.3415133
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ACM
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ISBN 978-1-4503-7558-0