“…Three facets of protection, namely, security, dependability and availability, define performance indicators [1], [2]. A reliability index, based on statistical data of relay operations, has been proposed in [3] and [4], while the parameter sensitivity of the protective relaying algorithms has been studied, based on experimental data in [5]. Due to a lack of relay information, however, the proposed reliability index has been evaluated in a combined manner, which cannot be used to pinpoint the causes of malfunctions.…”