Process-to-bay level peer-to-peer network delay in IEC 61850 substation communication systems

Author

Das, Niladri ; Tin Tun Aung ; Islam, Shariful

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ., Perth, WA, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

Sept. 29 2013-Oct. 3 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents the application of IEC 61850 protocol in electrical power engineering industry for data communication systems between substations. This IEC 61850 protocol presents new challenges for real-time communication performance between Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) within substation because of the Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) messages. The analyses of substation Ethernet communication delay, its impact factors, various methods and different network topologies which can improve the real-time performance are discussed. For basic analysis of data flow within a substation, the Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) software is used. The process to bay level network simulation model is performed by using the OPNET software. The Ethernet delay performance of the process to bay level network simulation results are analyzed which is based on switched, shared Ethernet network or Peer to Peer network.

Keywords

IEC standards; access protocols; data communication; electronic messaging; local area networks; peer-to-peer computing; real-time systems; substations; Ethernet communication delay; GOOSE message; IEC 61850 protocol; IEC 61850 substation; IED; OPNET software; communication systems; data communication; data flow; electrical power engineering industry; generic object oriented substation event message; intelligent electronic devices; optimized network engineering tool; peer-to-peer network delay; process-to-bay level; real-time communication; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Databases; IP networks; Ice; Redundancy; IEC 61850; OPNET Modeler; Power system communications; Real-time Peer-to-peer network delay; Substation automation system (SAS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), 2013 Australasian Universities

Conference_Location

Hobart, TAS

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUPEC.2013.6725481

Filename

6725481