IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)

Building QKD Networks Based On a Novel QKD Scheme

Fang Song, Liusheng Huang, Wei Yang, Kan Yang

Published Apr 1, 2008• 0 citations

Abstract

We present a new quantum key distribution (QKD) scheme using EPR pairs and Bell state measurement, accompanied by quantum one-way function. The security of our scheme derives from BB84 protocol, and several other features make our QKD scheme fairly suitable for QKD network designs. So we then apply a modified version of our QKD scheme to construct a QKD network, allowing secure key distribution among any users within the network efficiently.

DOI: 10.1109/icnsc.2008.4525288

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