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Experimental Demonstration of DDoS Mitigation over a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Network Using Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Cryptography and Security 2018-02-20 v2

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, DDoS mitigation of QKD-based networks utilizing a software defined network application. Successful quantum-secured link allocation is achieved after a DDoS attack based on real-time monitoring of quantum parameters

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@article{arxiv.1802.05679,
  title  = {Experimental Demonstration of DDoS Mitigation over a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Network Using Software Defined Networking (SDN)},
  author = {Emilio Hugues-Salas and Foteini Ntavou and Yanni Ou and Jake. E. Kennard and Catherine White and Dimitrios Gkounis and Konstantinos Nikolovgenis and George Kanellos and Christopher Erven and Andrew Lord and Reza Nejabati and Dimitra Simeonidou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05679},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Accepted for presentation in OFC 2018 Conference. M2A.6

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