Cost-efficient protocol upgrading for quantum key distribution over metro optical networks
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Guo, Mingxuan; Cao, Yuan; Zhu, Jiali; Zhou, Xingyu; Zhang, Chunhui; Yu, Xiaosong; Zhao, Yongli; Zhang, Jie; Wang, Qin
- Source
- 2023 21st International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2023 21st International Conference on. :1-3 Jul, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Protocols
Costs
Simulation
Optical fiber networks
Benchmark testing
Quantum key distribution
Optimization
quantum key distribution
optical networks
cost optimization
- Language
- ISSN
- 2771-3059
This paper proposes a cost-efficient protocol upgrading algorithm for quantum key distribution over metro optical networks, reducing the number of channels added for QKD protocol upgrading by 17.6% compared to the benchmark.