Trusted Node QKD at an Electrical Utility

Philip G. Evans; Muneer Alshowkan; Duncan Earl; Daniel Mulkey; Raymond Newell; Glen Peterson; Claira Safi; Justin Tripp; Nicholas A. Peters

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3070222

Trusted Node QKD at an Electrical Utility

Quantum Physics 2021-08-06 v1

Authors: Philip G. Evans , Muneer Alshowkan , Duncan Earl , Daniel Mulkey , Raymond Newell , Glen Peterson , Claira Safi , Justin Tripp , Nicholas A. Peters

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Abstract

Challenges facing the deployment of quantum key distribution (QKD) systems in critical infrastructure protection applications include the optical loss-key rate tradeoff, addition of network clients, and interoperability of vendor-specific QKD hardware. Here, we address these challenges and present results from a recent field demonstration of three QKD systems on a real-world electric utility optical fiber network.

Keywords

quantum key distribution

Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.09877,
  title  = {Trusted Node QKD at an Electrical Utility},
  author = {Philip G. Evans and Muneer Alshowkan and Duncan Earl and Daniel Mulkey and Raymond Newell and Glen Peterson and Claira Safi and Justin Tripp and Nicholas A. Peters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.09877},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures; submitted to IEEE Access

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