ESTELLE: a method to analyze automatically the performance of telecontrol protocols in SCADA systems

Author

Medina, Verónica ; Gómez, Isabel ; Luque, Joaquín ; Martín, Sergio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Technol., Seville Univ., Spain

Volume

17

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

7/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

712

Lastpage

717

Abstract

This paper presents the use of ESTELLE, a formal description technique, as a method to calculate automatically the performance of telecontrol protocols in SCADA systems. Some specific primitives are added to the ESTELLE description language in order to achieve that goal. As an example, the authors analyze the performance of a telecontrol protocol. The results from this method are compared to performance measurements obtained from analytical and simulated solutions.

Keywords

SCADA systems; control system analysis computing; power system analysis computing; power system control; protocols; software packages; telecontrol; ESTELLE description language; ESTELLE formal description technique; computer simulation; performance measurements; performance modeling; power network SCADA systems; protocol specification; telecontrol protocols performance calculation; Access protocols; Analytical models; Communication system control; Delay; Energy management; Measurement; Performance analysis; Power system modeling; SCADA systems; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRD.2002.1022793

Filename

1022793