7-56 F650 Digital Bay Controller GEK-106310AB
7.2 IEC 61850 PROFILE FOR F650 7 IEC 61850 PROTOCOL
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5 PIXIT for Generic substation events model
GOOSE
Description Value / Clarification
Note about internal variable “Remote Device” and 
GOOSE validity checks
For each incomming GOOSE in the device there is an 
associated internal variable called “Remote Device”. This 
variable can have value ONLINE or OFFLINE. 
Value ONLINE means that the incomming GOOSE 
messages from the configured sender have been 
positively validated by MAC destination, gocbRef, datSet 
and goID. 
Value OFFLINE means that there are no GOOSE 
messages from configured sender or that incomming 
GOOSE messages from this sender have been 
invalidated by MAC destination or gocbRef or datSet or 
goID.
The variable “Remote Device” can have value ONLINE (it 
has been  validated by MAC destination, gocbRef, datSet 
and goID) but if the GOOSE message has been 
invalidated by confRev or ndsCom or numDatSetEntries 
or allData or if the order of data set elements is not correct 
then the incomming data from GOOSE message will be 
ignored.
What elements of a subscribed GOOSE header are 
checked to decide the message is valid and the allData 
values are accepted? If yes, describe the conditions. 
N source MAC address
Y destination MAC address (Should be multicast, if it is not 
multicast the status of the internal variable “Remote 
Device” goes to OFFLINE)
N VLAN id
N VLAN priority
Y Ethertype = 0x88B8
N APPID
Y gocbRef (should match setting, if not the status of the 
internal variable “Remote Device” goes to OFFLINE.)
N timeAllowedtoLive
Y datSet (should match setting, if not the status of the 
internal variable “Remote Device” goes to OFFLINE)
Y goID (should match setting, if not the status of then 
internal variable “Remote Device” goes to OFFLINE)
N t
N stNum
N sqNum
N test
Y confRev (should match setting, if not the status of the 
internal variable “Remote Device” is not affected but the 
incomming data from GOOSE message is ignored)
Y ndsCom (should have value FALSE, if it has value 
TRUE the status of the internal variable “Remote Device” 
is not affected but the incomming data from GOOSE 
message is ignored)
Y numDatSetEntries (should match expected number of 
data set entries, if not the status of the internal variable 
“Remote Device” is not affected but the incomming data 
from GOOSE message is ignored)
Y allData (should match expected data set, if not the 
status of the internal variable “Remote Device” is not 
affected but the incomming data from GOOSE message is 
ignored)
What is the behaviour when one subscribed GOOSE 
message isn’t received or syntactically incorrect (missing 
GOOSE)
A single “missing” or syntactically incorrect GOOSE 
message is ignored.
What is the behaviour when one subscribed GOOSE 
message exceeds the previous time Allowed to Live (TAL)
A single late GOOSE message does change the status of 
the internal variable “Remote Device” to OFFLINE. 
What is the behaviour when a subscribed GOOSE 
message is out-of-order
Sequence number is ignored the message will be 
accepted.
What is the behaviour when a subscribed GOOSE 
message is duplicated
N Sequence number is ignored the message will be 
accepted.