Comparison study of various factors affecting end-to-end delay in IEC 61850 substation communications using OPNET

The use of IEC 61850 communication protocol has more widely applied in electrical engineering, it presents new challenges to real-time performance simulation and testing of protective relays. In this paper, the OPNET Modeler simulation software has been used for the modeling of intelligent electronic device (IED) in substation level network. Based on simulations, different types of data stream have been discussed, such as, periodic data stream, random data stream and burst data steam. The specific studies using these models to construct substation automation system (SAS) network on OPNET modeler was made to reveal the influence of each factor to the real-time performance, which is also included in this report.

[1]  T.S. Sidhu,et al.  Control and automation of power system substation using IEC61850 communication , 2005, Proceedings of 2005 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, 2005. CCA 2005..

[2]  H. Hoang,et al.  Real-time communication for industrial embedded systems using switched Ethernet , 2004, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2004. Proceedings..

[3]  T.S. Sidhu,et al.  IED modelling for IEC61850 based substation automation system performance simulation , 2006, 2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting.

[4]  Wang Haizhu,et al.  Analysis of realtime performances of process-level networks based on IEC61850 SCSM Model , 2011, 2011 4th International Conference on Electric Utility Deregulation and Restructuring and Power Technologies (DRPT).

[5]  T S Sidhu,et al.  Performance of IEC 61850-9-2 Process Bus and Corrective Measure for Digital Relaying , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.

[6]  Yin Xianggen.  RESEARCH ON SUBSTATION SECONDARY CIRCUIT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING OPNET SIMULATOR , 2005 .

[7]  A. Kalam,et al.  The Real-Time Publisher/Subscriber Communication Model for Distributed Substation Systems , 2007, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.

[8]  T. Skeie,et al.  Ethernet in substation automation , 2002 .

[9]  Xu Kelai.  The Simulation of Substation Communication Network Based on IEC 61850-9-2 , 2010 .