Tunneling Horizontal IEC 61850 Traffic through Audio Video Bridging Streams for Flexible Microgrid Control and Protection

Michael Short, Fathi Abugchem and Muneeb Dawood
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Michael Short: Technology Futures Institute, Teesside University, Borough Road, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA, UK
Fathi Abugchem: Technology Futures Institute, Teesside University, Borough Road, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA, UK
Muneeb Dawood: Technology Futures Institute, Teesside University, Borough Road, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA, UK

Energies, 2016, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: In this paper, it is argued that some low-level aspects of the usual IEC 61850 mapping to Ethernet are not well suited to microgrids due to their dynamic nature and geographical distribution as compared to substations. It is proposed that the integration of IEEE time-sensitive networking (TSN) concepts (which are currently implemented as audio video bridging (AVB) technologies) within an IEC 61850 / Manufacturing Message Specification framework provides a flexible and reconfigurable platform capable of overcoming such issues. A prototype test platform and bump-in-the-wire device for tunneling horizontal traffic through AVB are described. Experimental results are presented for sending IEC 61850 GOOSE (generic object oriented substation events) and SV (sampled values) messages through AVB tunnels. The obtained results verify that IEC 61850 event and sampled data may be reliably transported within the proposed framework with very low latency, even over a congested network. It is argued that since AVB streams can be flexibly configured from one or more central locations, and bandwidth reserved for their data ensuring predictability of delivery, this gives a solution which seems significantly more reliable than a pure MMS-based solution.

Keywords: smart grid; micro grid; IEC 61850; audio video bridging (AVB); telecontrol and teleprotection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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