Component Contribution to the Total Reliability of the WAMS Network

Nowadays, the control of power systems relies on wide-area monitoring and control system (WAMS), which continuously measures and registers state vector values and is synchronized by signals from the uniform time system. A significant part of this system is the local information network, whose reliability largely determines the proper functioning of WAMS. One can assess the said reliability by dividing it into components. These are hardware or technical reliability associated with failure (destruction) of transmission channel elements or the integrity of communication lines, traffic reliability determined by time loss or data distortion without failure of a transmission channel element, software reliability related to errors in the development of exchange execution programs, and resilience against an external deliberate impact on the transmitted information. This paper addresses the assessment of the first three reliability components of the information network, shows its total value, and estimates the contribution of each component. The last component (resistance to an external deliberate action) is described in a huge number of works, which is why it is not considered in this paper.