Modelling and Simulation for Performance Evaluation of IEC61850-Based Substation Communication Systems

Author

Sidhu, Tarlochan S. ; Yin, Yujie

Author_Institution

Western Ontario Univ., London

Volume

22

Issue

3

fYear

2007

fDate

7/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1482

Lastpage

1489

Abstract

With the publishing of IEC 61850, the global communication standard for substation automation system (SAS), interoperability issue between intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) from different venders has been resolved. However, the overall performance and extensibility of this communication network are still left unanswered. This paper introduces the modeling technique of IED generic models and the setup of a research platform for resolving those issues using the OPNET Modeler. These configurable IED models allow the engineers to easily build SAS network model with different topologies for all kinds of substations so that the dynamic performance issues could be studied and rules could be developed to guide the SAS network planning and design. Some examples of using those models to construct SAS network as well as the network performance simulation results are also included in this paper.

Keywords

IEC standards; local area networks; substation automation; telecommunication network planning; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication standards; IEC61850-based substation communication systems; IED generic models; LAN; OPNET Modeler; SAS network planning; SAS network topology; dynamic performance; global communication standard; intelligent electronic devices; substation automation system; Communication networks; Communication standards; Design engineering; Global communication; IEC standards; Network topology; Publishing; Standards publication; Substation automation; Synthetic aperture sonar; Generic models; IEC 61850; OPNET Modeler; intelligent electronic device (IED); substation automation system (SAS);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRD.2006.886788

Filename

4265725