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Volume 18, Issue 8
  • ISSN: 2352-0965
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Abstract

Background

The rapid development of Industry 4.0 has opened up new power systems, which face a more complex network topology and a broader range of security threats. This has led to an urgent demand for a coordinated, lightweight, and secure communication management method.

Methods

This paper presents a general power communication framework with a joint security protection mechanism that is suitable for coordinated management and transmission safety. The framework manages the protocol’s thread management of the device by converting it to the framework’s process management. It formulates specifications for protocols and equipment that access the framework to achieve support for multiple protocols and equipment. This reduces the difficulty of system operation and maintenance, as well as system complexity, and improves management efficiency. Additionally, the joint security protective mechanism for plugin authentication and protocol encryption is introduced to enable secure data transmission and guarantee the framework's security management. Finally, two experiments have been conducted to discuss and confirm the effectiveness and safety of the framework.

Results

The results of the two experiments and the following analysis show that our framework is superior to the chosen well-known industrial commercial communication platforms, and the time delay cost by our mechanism doesn’t significantly affect the real-time data transmission in the power industry, proving its feasibility in both IoT and power applications.

Conclusion

Our framework demonstrates exceptional performance in terms of time lag and packet loss during the experiment, surpassing other IoT communication frameworks. Furthermore, it maintains its high standards even under rigorous security analysis.

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Keyword(s): communication framework; communication security; general power communication framework; joint security protection mechanism; New power system; secure transmission

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