Performance testing of the protection relays ensures that a particular protection scheme will operate reliably and fast enough to disconnect a faulty zone from the rest of the network, thus mitigating the effect of fault on the power system. It is therefore important to validate the settings of power protection equipment and to confirm its performance when subject to different fault conditions....

Modern power systems require increased connectivity to implement novel coordination and control schemes. Wide-spread use of information technology in smartgrid domain is an outcome this need. IEC 61850-based communication solutions have become popular due a myriad reasons. Object-oriented modeling capability, interoperable strong protocols are name few. However, system infrastructure not well-e...