WAPI-based Trusted Access for Smart Grounding Systems in Substations via Cyber-Physical Simulation
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As power grids become more digitalized, substation communication networks must offer high bandwidth, low latency, and strong security, which traditional wireless methods cannot provide at the same time. This paper proposes a trustworthy access scheme for power IoT terminals based on WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure) and builds a cyber-physical simulation platform that jointly models the communication and power processes. We compare WAPI with Wi-Fi HaLow, LoRaWAN, and 6LoWPAN. In steady state WAPI keeps packet latency below 5 ms and a packet delivery ratio near 100% under typical load, and it reaches the highest effective throughput among the four. These results indicate that WAPI can support an independent and controllable access system for the power IoT.
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