Research on Quantum Internet and Secure Communication

Nilay R. Mistry, Ankit Y. Dholakiya, Jay Prajapati

Quantum internet is an innovative approach to secure communication. Quantum internet is the next revolution in technology that enables the devices to perform operations that are beyond the classical internet. Quantum internet with quantum cryptography is one of the best solutions for secure data communication. Quantum internet uses the fundamental laws of quantum physics, which make it secure against sophisticated network attacks. In this research, the authors described quantum cryptography, which enhances the secure transmission over quantum internet using cryptographic protocols. These protocols use random bits transformations, which prevent attackers to make out the patterns of random bits transformations. Also, they introduced the conceptual OSI model for quantum internet, which makes it easy to understand the working of the quantum internet at different layers. Quantum internet can be implemented in intelligence network, satellite communication, critical infrastructure, etc. This can mark a significant change in secure communication.

Zebo Yang, Ali Ghubaish, Raj Kumar Jain +5 more

With its significant security potential, the quantum internet is poised to revolutionize technologies like cryptography and communications. Although it boasts enhanced security over traditional networks, the quantum internet still encounters unique security challenges essential for safeguarding its Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA). This study explores these challenges by analyzing the vulnerabilities and the corresponding mitigation strategies across different layers of the quantum internet, including physical, link, network, and application layers. We assess the severity of potential attacks, evaluate the expected effectiveness of mitigation strategies, and identify vulnerabilities within diverse network configurations, integrating both classical and quantum approaches. Our research highlights the dynamic nature of these security issues and emphasizes the necessity for adaptive security measures. The findings underline the need for ongoing research into the security dimension of the quantum internet to ensure its robustness, encourage its adoption, and maximize its impact on society.

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Gengtao Jia, Weidong Ni, Jia-Wei Wu

With the rapid development of energy Internet, interactions between the power communication network and the cyber Internet become increasingly frequent, resulting in information security threats. Power grid encryption algorithms are mainly based on computational complexity, which will be facilely cracked by the development of quantum computing. Meanwhile, the quantum security communication technology, which is absolutely safe in in theory, can cope with the challenges brought by the improvement of computing. Basing on quantum security communication technology, this paper proposes a general architecture of quantum security communication system in power grid. Problems existing in the application of quantum secure communication technology in power system and key technologies that required to be developed are analyzed concretely. Eventually, several typical energy Internet functions, such as major power-securing events and Unified meter reading and charging service (UMRCS) are proposed to verify the rationality and feasibility.