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Fragmentation-Based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) in WDM Networks

Yongrui Zhang, Yongmei Sun, Jianing Niu, Yuefeng Ji

Published Jul 1, 2019• 1 citation

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Abstract

To integrate QKD with WDM networks without affecting the provisioning of classical service requests, we propose a wavelength fragmentation assignment scheme for QKD devices, which uses Tabu search to get satisfied secure key rate.

DOI: 10.23919/ps.2019.8818108

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