We propose to investigate the performance of a satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution (QKD) system that uses key retransmission as a method for improving the system reliability. We develop analytical frameworks based on two three-dimensional Markov chain models allowing us to comprehensively analyze the proposed system’s performance in terms of key loss rate, link utilization, and delay outage rate. Our performance analysis takes into account the physical layer impairments induced by free-space optical channel and receiver noise. Numerical results quantitatively demonstrate that the performance of satellite-to-ground QKD system is significantly improved due to key retransmission. In addition, the appropriate selection of system parameters corresponding to different turbulence conditions to achieve the best performance improvement is also provided.
In this paper, we study an application of quantum key distribution (QKD) for indoor visible light communication (VLC) networks. Continuous variable QKD (CV-QKD) is used due to the fact that it is less expensive, working at room temperature, and much easier to implement. We design and analyze the security performance of the CV-QKD protocol based on sub-carrier intensity modulation (SIM) over indoor VLC systems taking into account the effects of VLC channel and other physical layer impairments. The mathematical expressions for quantum bit-error rate (QBER) and secret-key rate are derived. Based on the mathematical expressions, various systems’ metrics, including the modulation depth and the dual-threshold scale coefficient, can be determined so as to QBER and secret-key rate meet the design criteria.
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