Configuration and performance testing of IEC 61850 GOOSE

The IEC 61850 standard part 8-1 proposes Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) message for time critical applications over the Ethernet network. In order to cover the wide range of applications and achieve flexibility in implementation, GOOSE messages are kept generic in the standard. However, this flexibility leads to configuration problem achieving multi-vendor interoperability. Therefore, some efforts have been carried out in this work to present a systematic GOOSE configuration approach, as well as, verification and performance testing of the GOOSE. First part of this paper configuration of Ethernet switched network, including IEEE 1588 based time synchronization, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), and IEEE 802.1Q based Quality of Services (QoS). In the second part, the paper leads to step-by-step configuration process comprising IEC 61850 data modeling, datasets of GOOSE within individual IEDs, and system integration of GOOSE. Finally, the verification of configured GOOSE messages is presented using network analyzer tools, and performance testing time delay) over the network is carried out for various network scenarios.