Electric power communication security is an important support for the development of Energy Internet, secure transmission protection of core and sensitive business data is the vital task of electric power telecommunication network. Quantum secret communication systems rely on quantum key distribution (QKD) mechanism. As the core equipment in quantum secret communication system, quantum VPN achieves data encryption and decryption with quantum key to improve the cipher security of traditional VPN, which can effectively enhance network security of communication in Energy Internet. In this paper, the working mechanism of quantum key distribution and quantum VPN (QuVPN) equipment is firstly described for the commercial quantum secret communication system based on polarization modulation. The simulation experiment structure of quantum VPN is designed, and the experimental environment is established by using the practical QKD equipment, quantum VPN and network tester. The most important performance characteristics including throughput, delay and encryption algorithm of quantum VPN are tested and statistically analyzed, and the verification of secure network transmission with quantum key is implemented. The test results can provide some technical reference for extensive application of quantum VPN in power grid production and management informatization business.
Electric power communication security is an important support for the development of Energy Internet, secure transmission protection of core and sensitive business data is the vital task of electric power telecommunication network. Quantum secret communication systems rely on quantum key distribution (QKD) mechanism. As the core equipment in quantum secret communication system, quantum VPN achieves data encryption and decryption with quantum key to improve the cipher security of traditional VPN, which can effectively enhance network security of communication in Energy Internet. In this paper, the working mechanism of quantum key distribution and quantum VPN (QuVPN) equipment is firstly described for the commercial quantum secret communication system based on polarization modulation. The simulation experiment structure of quantum VPN is designed, and the experimental environment is established by using the practical QKD equipment, quantum VPN and network tester. The most important performance characteristics including throughput, delay and encryption algorithm of quantum VPN are tested and statistically analyzed, and the verification of secure network transmission with quantum key is implemented. The test results can provide some technical reference for extensive application of quantum VPN in power grid production and management informatization business.
Quantum cryptography is an epoch-making technology with irreplaceable security, which has been widely used in the field of secure communication. This paper first explores the application prospects of quantum communication technology in power systems. Secondly, this paper innovatively proposes a power secure communication method based on quantum keys. At the same time, this paper constructs the quantum key secure communication network architecture and analyzes the application principle and security mechanism of quantum key. Taking the quantum key management system as the core, the author designs and implements the quantum key security storage and business security process application model. Thirdly, this paper uses the local search algorithm to optimize the parameters of the MDI-QKD protocol under symmetric and asymmetric conditions, and gives its optimized key rate. Finally, this paper uses the actual quantum key distribution equipment, quantum VPN and network tester to build an experimental environment. The system uses a comprehensive network tester to simulate the power grid application business information to test and statistically analyze the core performance characteristics of quantum VPN, such as throughput, delay, and encryption algorithm. The experimental results can provide a reference for the popularization and application of the quantum secure communication system in the power grid production control and management information business.
Considering the complexity of power grid environments and the diversity of power communication transmission losses, this study proposes a quantum key distribution (QKD) network structure suitable for power business scenarios. Through simulating the power communication transmission environment, performance indicators of quantum channels and data interaction channels in power QKD systems are tested and evaluated from six aspects, such as distance loss, galloping loss, splice loss, data traffic, encryption algorithm and system stability. In the actual environment, this study combines the production business to build a QKD network suitable for power scenarios, and conducts performance analyses. The experimental results show that power QKD technologies can meet the operation index requirements of power businesses, as well as provide a reference for large-scale applications of the technology.
With the continuous development of power communication network and the improvement of intelligent degree, network security and operation and maintenance become more and more important. Therefore, this paper proposes a solution for intelligent security operation and maintenance of power communication network based on Quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD is an encryption technology based on the principle of quantum mechanics, which can realize secure Key exchange and resist attacks of traditional encryption algorithms. We use QKD technology to generate and distribute security keys for protecting communication and data transmission in power communication networks. The results show that the efficiency and accuracy of communication data acquisition, transmission, analysis and processing of the Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations system of the power communication network using the power Internet of Things technology are far higher than that of the traditional operation and maintenance technology, which improves the operation and maintenance accuracy of the power communication network by about 25%. The intelligent operation and maintenance system of the power communication network designed by the author, it effectively improves the communication data processing capability and the reliability of operation and maintenance results, and can meet the current practical engineering application requirements. This study provides an innovative solution for the secure operation and maintenance of power communication networks, which is of great significance for protecting the security and stable operation of power communication networks.
With the expansion of the power grid and the increase of the complexity of the power system, the power grid has more stringent requirements for the security of the services transmission. In the secondary protection system of power systems, traditional encryption devices use symmetric encryption algorithms to add and decrypt communication data. Quantum keys have extremely high security. Applying the quantum keys to the power communication network encryption devices can greatly improve the security of service transmission. The quantum key resources generated by the existing quantum key distribution devices is limited, and it is difficult to ensure that all power services data are encrypted and transmitted. Therefore, it is necessary to prioritize the confidential transmission of important services by establishing appropriate evaluation methods for services importance. A relative importance matrix based on the transmission performance indicators of each service was built under the background of quantum communication, so as to obtain the importance of the power communication network business, and to carry out subsequent quantum key application strategy research.
Traditional virtual private networks（ VPNs） are conditional security. In order to ensure the security and confidentiality of user data transmission,a model of quantum VPN based on Internet protocol security（ IPSec）protocol is proposed. By using quantum keys for key distribution and entangled particles for identity authentication in the network,a secure quantum VPN is relized. The important parameters affecting the performance of the VPN was analyzed. The quantitative relationship between the security key generation rate,the quantum bit error rate（ QBER） and the transmission distance was obtained. The factors that affect the system throughput were also analyzed and simulated. Finally,the influence of the quantum noise channel on the entanglement swapping was analyzed. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that,under a limited number of decoy states,with the transmission distance increased from 0 to 112. 5 km,the secure key generation rate was reduced from 5. 63 × 10-3 to 1. 22 × 10-5. When the number of decoy states is fixed,the QBER increases dramatically with the increase of the transmission distance,and the maximum reaches 0. 393. Analysis shows that various factors in communication have a significant impact on system throughput. The generation rate of the effective entanglement photon pairs have decisive effect on the system throughput. Therefore,in the process of quantum VPN communication,various parameters of the system should be properly adjusted to communicate within a safe transmission distance,which can effectively improve the reliability of the quantum communication system.
Based on 5G communication, this paper proposes a quantum key encryption method for the physical layer of power grid communication that uses single quantum key encryption to generate a key matrix to achieve the effect of improving the security of the communication system. The innovation of this method is that it can calculate the quantum key update frequency and distribution strategy of each power business by itself. At the same time, the power grid communication encryption algorithm can optimize the quantum key management control process of the quantum security encryption transmission equipment. It can solve the problems of low-key application efficiency or insufficient key that may exist in the current application due to the singleness of the quantum key strategy. Simulation studies show that this scheme can enhance the security and practicability of sensitive information in the power grid.