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Auxiliary Topology Based Global Quantum Key Distribution for Secure Multicast Service

Kai Dong, Yongli Zhao, Xiaosong Yu, Jie Zhang, Hao Yu, Zhang Yingqiang

Published Jul 1, 2019• 5 citations
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Abstract

A new node structure is designed to distribute global quantum keys for secure multicast services and a novel auxiliary topology based routing and keys assignment algorithm is proposed and evaluated in terms of security probability.
DOI
10.23919/ps.2019.8818166

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