Improved performance of the cryptographic key distillation protocol of an FSO/CV-QKD system on a turbulent channel using an adaptive LDPC encoder

In this paper, a dynamical and adaptive LDPC coding scheme is proposed in order to improve the performance of the cryptographic key distillation protocol of an FSO/CV-QKD system considering the atmospheric turbulence levels that may be present in the classic channel. In this scheme, the Generator an...

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Autores: J.A López-Leyva, A. Arvizu-Mondragon, J. Santos-Aguila, R. Ramos-Garcia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:México
Institución:Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
Repositorio:Redalyc-CICESE
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:57050507008
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57050507008
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas
Rytov variance
secret key rate
mutual information
Atmospheric turbulence
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Sumario:In this paper, a dynamical and adaptive LDPC coding scheme is proposed in order to improve the performance of the cryptographic key distillation protocol of an FSO/CV-QKD system considering the atmospheric turbulence levels that may be present in the classic channel. In this scheme, the Generator and Parity-check matrices of the encoder are modified according to the Rytov variance values estimated in the classical channel in order to improve the final secret key rate of the QKD system. The simulation results show that the final secret key was incremented 87.5 Kbps (from 52.5 Kbps to 140 Kbps) using the adaptive code rate; meaning that the information encrypted and transmitted is increased. In addition, the use of the dynamical encoder avoids the drastically reduction of the final secret key rate when the conditions of the classical channel are considered. Our proposal might be implemented based on the use of high-speed FPGA’s and DSP’s commercially available.