Author(s)

Ali M. Allam^*, Mohamed Saied, Ihab Aly

Department of Electronic, Communication and Computer Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) Messages face a great challenge in its communication requirements especially in latency point of view. The appearance of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) has opened a new way that can be used due to its great performance, compared with previous wireless technologies. In order to use LTE technology within the GOOSE message transfer, several points must be put into consideration, and additional requirements need to be within both LTE User Equipment (UE) side and network side. In this paper, we are going to adapt part of the LTE standards to fulfil the requirements of GOOSE messages which needs latency more than or equal to 20 ms, using an experimental approach. The results show that LTE can satisfy the target requirements of latency within the acceptable Bit Error Rate (BER).

M2M, LTE-A, GOOSE Messages, Smart Grid

Allam, A. , Saied, M. and Aly, I. (2015) Adapting LTE M-2-M Protocol Standard to Fulfil Latency Requirements for IEC 61850 GOOSE Messages. International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, 8, 154-160. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2015.85017.