Papers | Parallel Computing
2023
Jani Valtari, Anna Kulmala, Sandro Schönborn, David Khozaya, Robert Birke, Reikko Jyrki
Real-life Pilot of Virtual Protection and Control - Experiences and Performance Analysis Proceedings Article
In: 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED), Rome, Italy, 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: RT
@inproceedings{23:valtari:pilot,
title = {Real-life Pilot of Virtual Protection and Control - Experiences and Performance Analysis},
author = {Jani Valtari and Anna Kulmala and Sandro Schönborn and David Khozaya and Robert Birke and Reikko Jyrki},
url = {https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/5de5fb00-02bf-4ba8-a4db-5876415d5105/virtualization_full_paper_cired2023_submitted.pdf},
doi = {10.1049/icp.2023.1219},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-01},
booktitle = {27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED)},
address = {Rome, Italy},
abstract = {Virtualized protection and control (VPC) is seen as a promising evolution for the centralized protection and control (CPC) concept. Centralization of protection functions consolidates the functions of multiple traditional relays into one device. This consolidation reduces communications network complexity and offers effective ways to manage protection applications of the substation. Making the CPC available as a VPC software image instead of a dedicated device creates yet another degree of freedom. The solution becomes hardware independent, bringing more flexibility and scalability to the solution. ABB and Caruna together wanted to explore these possibilities in a real-life substation pilot. This paper describes the piloted VPC environment and the results from the piloting period. The results show that virtualization technology is suitable for time critical protection and control applications, with real-time performance comparable to existing non- virtualized solutions.},
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Virtualized protection and control (VPC) is seen as a promising evolution for the centralized protection and control (CPC) concept. Centralization of protection functions consolidates the functions of multiple traditional relays into one device. This consolidation reduces communications network complexity and offers effective ways to manage protection applications of the substation. Making the CPC available as a VPC software image instead of a dedicated device creates yet another degree of freedom. The solution becomes hardware independent, bringing more flexibility and scalability to the solution. ABB and Caruna together wanted to explore these possibilities in a real-life substation pilot. This paper describes the piloted VPC environment and the results from the piloting period. The results show that virtualization technology is suitable for time critical protection and control applications, with real-time performance comparable to existing non- virtualized solutions.
Sandro Schönborn, Robert Birke, David Kozhaya, Thanikesavan Sivanthi
Real-Time Performance of Virtualised Protection and Control Software Proceedings Article
In: 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED), Rome, Italy, 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: RT
@inproceedings{23:schoenborn:vipac,
title = {Real-Time Performance of Virtualised Protection and Control Software},
author = {Sandro Schönborn and Robert Birke and David Kozhaya and Thanikesavan Sivanthi},
url = {https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/eb610327-6e38-4f5e-8673-e62f2d956821/10702-Scho%cc%88nborn.pdf},
doi = {10.1049/icp.2023.1028},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-01},
booktitle = {27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED)},
address = {Rome, Italy},
abstract = {Substation automation is ever challenged by the integration of distributed energy resources which imposes higher deployment flexibility and adaptability for protection and control. Although virtualization helps to run software applications independent of the underlying platform in IT infrastructures and cloud computing, it is still not commonly used in the field of substation automation. This is mainly due to the real-time performance demands of substation automation protection and control applications. In this article, we present an approach for running substation automation protection and control software in virtual environments. We contrast the real-time performance of different virtualization technologies under different workloads and focus on the performance evaluation of protection and control software in container- based solutions running on Linux with PREEMPT RT. We also present additional results for performance achieved in virtual machines. Our results clearly demonstrate that it is possible to run substation automation protection and control software in virtual environments while still providing the necessary performance. This paves the way for the deployment of substation protection and control software in virtualisation environments.},
keywords = {RT},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Substation automation is ever challenged by the integration of distributed energy resources which imposes higher deployment flexibility and adaptability for protection and control. Although virtualization helps to run software applications independent of the underlying platform in IT infrastructures and cloud computing, it is still not commonly used in the field of substation automation. This is mainly due to the real-time performance demands of substation automation protection and control applications. In this article, we present an approach for running substation automation protection and control software in virtual environments. We contrast the real-time performance of different virtualization technologies under different workloads and focus on the performance evaluation of protection and control software in container- based solutions running on Linux with PREEMPT RT. We also present additional results for performance achieved in virtual machines. Our results clearly demonstrate that it is possible to run substation automation protection and control software in virtual environments while still providing the necessary performance. This paves the way for the deployment of substation protection and control software in virtualisation environments.