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Quantum-Key-Distribution (QKD) Networks Enabled by Software-Defined Networks (SDN) [PDF]

Applied Sciences, 2019
As an important support for quantum communication, quantum key distribution (QKD) networks have achieved a relatively mature level of development, and they face higher requirements for multi-user end-to-end networking capabilities.
Hua Wang, Yongli Zhao, Avishek Nag
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Boosting Quantum Key Distribution via the End-to-End Loss Control

Cryptography, 2023
With the rise of quantum technologies, data security increasingly relies on quantum cryptography and its most notable application, quantum key distribution (QKD).
Aleksei D. Kodukhov, Valeria A. Pastushenko, Nikita S. Kirsanov, Dmitry A. Kronberg, Markus Pflitsch, Valerii M. Vinokur   +5 more
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Variations of QKD Protocols Based on Conventional System Measurements: A Literature Review

Cryptography, 2022
Cryptography is an unexpected revolution in information security in the recent decades, where remarkable improvements have been created to provide confidentiality and integrity.
Abdulbast A. Abushgra
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An Efficient Routing Protocol for Quantum Key Distribution Networks

Entropy, 2022
Quantum key distribution (QKD) can provide point-to-point information-theoretic secure key services for two connected users. In fact, the development of QKD networks needs more focus from the scientific community in order to broaden the service scale of ...
Jiameng Yao, Yaxing Wang, Qiong Li, Haokun Mao, Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif, Nan Chen   +5 more
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Field test of quantum key distribution in the Tokyo QKD Network [PDF]

Optics Express, 2011
21 pages, 19 ...
Sasaki, M., Fujiwara, M., Ishizuka, H., Klaus, W., Wakui, K., Takeoka, M., Miki, S., Yamashita, T., Wang, Z., Tanaka, A., Yoshino, K., Nambu, Y., Takahashi, S., Tajima, A., Tomita, A., Domeki, T., Hasegawa, T., Sakai, Y., Kobayashi, H., Asai, T., Shimizu, K., Tokura, T., Tsurumaru, T., Matsui, M., Honjo, T., Tamaki, K., Takesue, H., Tokura, Y., Dynes, J. F., Dixon, A. R., Sharpe, A. W., Yuan, Z. L., Shields, A. J., Uchikoga, S., Legré, M., Robyr, S., Trinkler, P., Monat, L., Page, J.-B., Ribordy, G., Poppe, A., Allacher, A., Maurhart, O., Länger, T., Peev, M., Zeilinger, A.   +45 more
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Deployed measurement-device independent quantum key distribution and Bell-state measurements coexisting with standard internet data and networking equipment

Communications Physics, 2022
Quantum key distribution (QKD) for information-theoretic secure distribution of cryptographic keys is one of the best known applications that will be enabled by the Quantum Internet. Here, the authors deploy the protocol of measurement-device-independent
Remon C. Berrevoets, Thomas Middelburg, Raymond F. L. Vermeulen, Luca Della Chiesa, Federico Broggi, Stefano Piciaccia, Rene Pluis, Prathwiraj Umesh, Jorge F. Marques, Wolfgang Tittel, Joshua A. Slater   +10 more
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Adaptive Resource Allocation in Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) for Federated Learning

2023 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2023
6 pages, 6 figures, and a conference.
Kaewpuang, Rakpong, Xu, Minrui, Niyato, Dusit, Yu, Han, Xiong, Zehui, Shen, Xuemin Sherman   +5 more
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Simulation and Application Purpose of a Randomized Secret Key with Quantum Key Distribution

Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering, 2022
The Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a well-researched secure communication method for exchanging cryptographic keys only known by the shared participants.
Grote Olaf, Ahrens Andreas
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Practical Security of High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution with Intensity Modulator Extinction

Entropy, 2022
Quantum key distribution (QKD) has attracted much attention due to its unconditional security. High-dimensional quantum key distribution (HD-QKD) is a brand-new type of QKD protocol that has many excellent advantages. Nonetheless, practical imperfections
Yang Wang, Ge-Hai Du, Yang-Bin Xu, Chun Zhou, Mu-Sheng Jiang, Hong-Wei Li, Wan-Su Bao   +6 more
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Sending-or-Not-Sending Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution with a Passive Decoy-State Method

Entropy, 2022
Twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) has attracted considerable attention because it can exceed the basic rate-distance limit without quantum repeaters.
Ke Xue, Zhigang Shen, Shengmei Zhao, Qianping Mao   +3 more
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