• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1120-1121
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• 2007

IEC61850의 적용으로 기존의 serial 통신방식을 대체할 수단으로 ethernet 통신이 각광받고 있지만, 아직까지 실제 산업분야에서 적용하기 쉽지 않은 것이 사실이다. IED의 개발 업체에서 적용하기 위해 노력중이지만, ethernet 통신을 가능하게 하기 위한 OS의 탑재와 방대한 양의 메모리는 기존의 IED가 가지고 있는 H/W와 S/W를 많은 부분에서 수정해야한다는 것을 의미한다. 그렇기에 기존의 serial통신을 이용하여 더 신뢰성 있는 통신을 구현하는 것은 과도기적 성격의 IED의 개발과 또한, IEC61850의 적용이 부담 될 수 있는 환경에서의 사용에 의미 있는 일이라 할 수 있다. 여기에 serial통신을 전기적인 신호가 아닌 광을 이용하여 구축하는 것이 하나의 방법이 될 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 IED에 광통신을 적용하는데 초점을 두었으며, 광통신의 방법적인 면에서 생각할 수 있는 내용을 기술 하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.121-130
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• 2021

Cascading failure is the main cause of large blackouts in electrical power systems; this paper analyzes a cascading failure in Hanbit nuclear power plant unit two (2) caused by a circuit breaker (CB) operation failure. This malfunction has been expanded to the loss of offsite power (LOOP). In this study, current practices are reviewed and then the methodologies of how to prevent cascading failures in protection power systems are introduced. An overview on the implementation of IEC61850 GOOSE messaging-based zone selective interlocking (ZSI) scheme as key solution is proposed. In consideration of ZSI blocking time, all influencing factors such as circuit breaker opening time, relay I/O response time and messages travelling time in the communication network should be taken into account. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the effect of cascading failure in NPP electrical power protection system and propose preventive actions for this failures. Finally, the expected advantages and challenges are elaborated.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.2
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• pp.130-139
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• 2013

In recent, the communication networks of wind power farm are becoming crucial technologies for monitoring and controlling the large-scale offshore wind power farm. In this paper, EPON based communication network architectures are proposed in order to combat the problems of conventional Ethernet based communication network such as delay, data processing overhead and the fairness of data transmission among turbines in offshore wind power farm. The proposed architecture constructs the point to multi-point network by using OLT and ONUs installed in central control center and wind turbines respectively. The EPON based communication network architecture has low cost, high reliability, and fair transmission capability. To evaluate the performance of proposed architectures, the wind power farm based on IEC 61850 is modelled by using OPNET The simulation results are analyzed and compared with conventional Ethernet based communication network in terms of the overhead, delay and fairness of data transmission.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.349-359
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• 2019

This paper introduces a wind turbine simulation system based on the IEC 61400-25 standard to simulate different kinds of wind turbines. A unified communication protocol was required for monitoring and control of wind turbines, because manufacturers had used their own protocols for their turbines. As a result of such an effort, the international standard IEC 61400-25 was established. To implement the schema of IEC 61400-25, the IEC61850 SCL was modified and applied to the simulation system, which enabled the system to be compatible with heterogeneous wind turbine information models. The developed simulation system can be used for interoperability tests with a new type of wind turbine information model.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.59 no.3
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• pp.275-288
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• 2010

In order to improve the quality of electricity in large scale power systems, stability of power system has to be achieved. This can be done by the means of preventative diagnosis of power equipments and protection, monitoring and control of the power system. Since the recent adoption of digital controllers, an improvement in stability was observed; in particular, IED, which contained self-diagnostic abilities such as fault tolerance, allowed for automatic recovery via redundancy or switching-over functions should there be faults with the equipments. Furthermore, communication lines have been hugely simplified, thus adding to the improvement in stability significantly. Taking these error reports and forecasting emergency reports and by effectively responding to them in the overiding controlling systems, high levels of system stability can be obtained. Power Management System that is being applied to automated power sub-stations, takes the IEC61850 international standard as its specification. In this paper, additional research into achieving stability of already developed PMS system and also the stability of the overall system was carried out, and the results of development of communication servers, which play a pivotal role in connecting systems, are stated.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.199-204
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• 2021

Digital substation refers to a substation that digitizes functions and communication methods of power facilities such as monitoring, measuring, control, protection, and operation based on IEC 61850, an international standard for the purpose of intelligent power grids. Based on the intelligent operating system, efficient monitoring and control of power facilities is possible, and automatic recovery function and remote control are possible in the event of an accident, enabling rapid power failure recovery. With the development of digital technology and the expansion of the introduction of eco-friendly renewable energy and electric vehicles, the spread of direct current distribution systems is expected to expand. MVDC is a system that utilizes direct current lines with voltage levels and transmission capacities between HVDCs applied to conventional transmission systems and LVDCs from consumers. Converting existing lines in substations, where most power equipment is alternating current centric, to direct current lines will reduce transmission losses and ensure greater current capacity. The process bus of a digital substation is a communication network consisting of communication equipment such as Ethernet switches that connect installed devices between bay level and process level. For MVDC linkage to existing digital substations, the process level was divided into two buses: AC and DC, and a system that can be comprehensively managed in conjunction with diagnostic IEDs as well as surveillance and control was proposed.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.123-131
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• 2016

The high-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) protocol is one of the most important redundancy IEC standards that has garnered a great deal of attention because it offers a redundancy with zero recovery time, which is a feature that is required by most of the modern substation, smart grid, and industrial field applications. However, the HSR protocol consumes a lot of network bandwidth compared to the Ethernet standard. This is due to the duplication process for every sent frame in the HSR networks. In this paper, a novel algorithm known as the reducing multicast traffic (RMT) is presented to reduce the unnecessary redundant multicast traffic in HSR networks by limiting the spreading of the multicast traffic to only the rings that have members associated with that traffic instead of spreading the traffic into all the network parts, as occurs in the standard HSR protocol. The mathematical and the simulation analyses show that the RMT algorithm offers a traffic reduction percentage with a range of about 60-87% compared to the standard HSR protocol. Consequently, the RMT algorithm will increase the network performance by freeing more bandwidth so as to reduce HSR network congestion and also to minimize any intervention from the network administrator that would be required when using traditional traffic filtering techniques.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11c
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• pp.711-713
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• 2004

In the past time, the protection relay did only a protection function. Currently, its upgraded device i.e. IED(Intelligent Electric Device) has been designed to protect, control, and monitor the whole power system automatically. Also the device is desired to successfully measure important elements of the power system. This paper considers design method of a digital protection IED with a function of measuring various elements and a communication function. The protection IED is composed of the specific function modules that are signal process module, communication module, input/output module and main control module. A signal process module use a DSP processor for analysis of input signal. Main control module use a embedded processor, Xscale, that has an ARM Core. The communication protocol uses IEC61850 protocol that becomes standard in the future. The protection IED is able to process mass information with high-performance processor. As each function module is designed individually, the reliability of the device can be enhanced.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2414-2416
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• 2004

Power Companies worldwide are undergoing tremendous change in the Automation issues. It becomes a worldwide trend that the power utilities focus their attention to the automation of their power plants and substation systems, employing recent advanced communication protocols. In this paper, we discuss the standard communication protocols which can be applied in the automation systems to help utilities reduce their operation and maintenance costs while at the same time meeting new requirements for communications to RTUs and intelligent electronic devices(IEDs). Especially, we introduce EC 61850 protocol which is developing for international standard by IEC.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1181-1190
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• 2013

The GOOSE(Generic Object Oriented Substation Event) is used as a network protocol to communicate between IEDs(Intelligent Electronic Devices) in international standard IEC 61850 of substation automation system. Nevertheless, the GOOSE protocol is facing many similar threats used in TCP/IP protocol due to ethernet-based operation. In this paper, we develop a IDS(Intrusion Detection System) for secure GOOSE Protocol using open software-based IDS Snort. In this IDS, two security functions for keyword search and DoS attack detection are implemented through improvement of decoding and preprocessing component modules. And we also implement the GOOSE IDS and verify its accuracy using GOOSE packet generation and communication experiment.