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Reconciliation is an essential part of any secret-key agreement protocol and hence of a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol, where two legitimate parties are given correlated data and want to agree on a common string in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-01 David Elkouss , Anthony Leverrier , Romain Alléaume , Joseph Boutros

An information reconciliation method for continuous-variable quantum key distribution with Gaussian modulation that is based on non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is presented. Sets of regular and irregular LDPC codes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Christoph Pacher , Jesus Martinez-Mateo , Jörg Duhme , Tobias Gehring , Fabian Furrer

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) has been proposed as a method for securely exchanging keys to protect against the security concerns caused by potential advancements in quantum computing. In addition to optical fibre…

We develop a new approach for asymmetric LDPC-based information reconciliation in order to adapt to the current channel state and achieve better performance and scalability in practical resource-constrained QKD systems. The new scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Nikolay Borisov , Ivan Petrov , Andrey Tayduganov

In continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), the performance of the information reconciliation (IR) step is critical for the achievable secret key rate (SKR) and transmission distance. We show how to improve on the recently…

We discuss the error reconciliation phase in quantum key distribution (QKD) and analyse a simple scheme in which blocks with bad parity (that is, blocks containing an odd number of errors) are discarded. We predict the performance of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-10 Richard P. Brent

This paper investigates an efficient and practical information reconciliation method in the case where two parties have access to correlated continuous random variables. We show that reconciliation is a special case of channel coding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Matthieu Bloch , Andrew Thangaraj , Steven W. McLaughlin

Channel estimation at millimeter wave (mmWave) is challenging when large antenna arrays are used. Prior work has leveraged the sparse nature of mmWave channels via compressed sensing based algorithms for channel estimation. Most of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Robert W. Heath

A new approach for blind channel equalization and decoding, variational inference, and variational autoencoders (VAEs) in particular, is introduced. We first consider the reconstruction of uncoded data symbols transmitted over a noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Avi Caciularu , David Burshtein

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) is a promising quantum-safe alternative to classical asymmetric cryptography that enables two authenticated parties to establish a shared secret over a potentially eavesdropped quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Jonas Berl , Utku Akin , Erdem Eray Cil , Laurent Schmalen , Tobias Fehenberger

Maximum Likelihood (ML) algorithms, for the joint estimation of synchronization impairments and channel in Multiple Input Multiple Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system, are investigated in this work. A system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Renu Jose , K. V. S. Hari

Quantum key distribution (QKD) relies on quantum and classical procedures in order to achieve the growing of a secret random string -the key- known only to the two parties executing the protocol. Limited intrinsic efficiency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 David Elkouss , Jesus Martinez-Mateo , Vicente Martin

Phase noise correction is crucial to exploit full advantage of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in modern high-data-rate communications. OFDM channel estimation with simultaneous phase noise compensation has therefore drawn…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Zhongju Wang , Prabhu Babu , Daniel P. Palomar

Designing high-precision and efficient schemes is of crucial importance for quantum parameter estimation in practice. The estimation scheme based on continuous quantum measurement is one possible type of this, which looks also the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Cheng Zhang , Kai Zhou , Wei Feng , Xin-Qi Li

We present a continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocol combining a continuous but slightly non-Gaussian modulation together with a efficient reverse reconciliation scheme. We establish the security of this protocol against…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Anthony Leverrier , Philippe Grangier

Algorithms for mutual interference mitigation and object parameter estimation are a key enabler for automotive applications of frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. In this paper, we introduce a signal separation method to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Mate Toth , Erik Leitinger , Klaus Witrisal

Semantic communications have emerged as a new paradigm for improving communication efficiency by transmitting the semantic information of a source message that is most relevant to a desired task at the receiver. Most existing approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yufei Bo , Yiheng Duan , Shuo Shao , Meixia Tao

We consider the problem of quantum multi-parameter estimation with experimental constraints and formulate the solution in terms of a convex optimization. Specifically, we outline an efficient method to identify the optimal strategy for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kevin C. Young , Mohan Sarovar , Robert Kosut , K. Birgitta Whaley

Excess noise is a major obstacle to high-performance continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD), which is mainly derived from the amplitude attenuation and phase fluctuation of quantum signals caused by channel instability. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Kexin Liang , Geng Chai , Zhengwen Cao , Qing Wang , Lei Wang , Jinye Peng

This paper presents a federated learning framework secured by quantum key distribution (QKD) for wireless channel estimation and radar spectrum sensing in the next generation networks (NextG or Beyond 6G). A BB84-style protocol abstraction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Murat Kuzlu , Jungwon Seo , Umit Cali