IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP)

Calculation of Bit Error Rates for Superdense and ALOHA based Quantum Communication

Md. Esa Ibn Eunus, Md Ariful Haque, Md. Saifur Rahman

Published Dec 22, 2021• 6 citations

Abstract

Quantum communication allows us to share information by using the quantum states of qubits. Superdense coding is a very popular protocol or scheme for quantum communication, which uses entangled qubits. Entangled qubits can also be used to share information using an ALOHA based protocol. Performance evaluation of these protocols is essential for their implementation in quantum communication. In this paper, we calculate the bit error rates (BERs) of these two entanglement-based quantum communication schemes. It has been noticed that the BER performance is improved in an ALOHA based scheme compared to the Superdense coding scheme. However, without using any error correction schemes, the BERs are still very high in both the cases compared to the classical communication methods. The BER performance can be further improved by using the appropriate error correction schemes, which are under investigation.

DOI: 10.1109/ictp53732.2021.9744193

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