Experimental unconditionally secure covert communication in dense wavelength-division multiplexing networks
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| author | Liu, Yang Arrazola, Juan Miguel Liu, Wen-Zhao Zhang, Weijun Primaatmaja, Ignatius William Li, Hao You, Lixing Wang, Zhen Scarani, Valerio Zhang, Qiang Pan, Jian-Wei |
| author_facet | Liu, Yang Arrazola, Juan Miguel Liu, Wen-Zhao Zhang, Weijun Primaatmaja, Ignatius William Li, Hao You, Lixing Wang, Zhen Scarani, Valerio Zhang, Qiang Pan, Jian-Wei |
| contents | Covert communication offers a method to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is happening at all. In this work, we report an experimental demonstration of covert communication that is provably secure against unbounded quantum adversaries. The covert communication is carried out over 10 km of optical fiber, addressing the challenges associated with transmission over metropolitan distances. We deploy the protocol in a dense wavelength-division multiplexing infrastructure, where our system has to coexist with a co-propagating C-band classical channel. The noise from the classical channel allows us to perform covert communication in a neighbouring channel. We perform an optimization of all protocol parameters and report the transmission of three different messages with varying levels of security. Our results showcase the feasibility of secure covert communication in a practical setting, with several possible future improvements from both theory and experiment. |
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| spellingShingle | Experimental unconditionally secure covert communication in dense wavelength-division multiplexing networks Liu, Yang Arrazola, Juan Miguel Liu, Wen-Zhao Zhang, Weijun Primaatmaja, Ignatius William Li, Hao You, Lixing Wang, Zhen Scarani, Valerio Zhang, Qiang Pan, Jian-Wei Quantum Physics Covert communication offers a method to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is happening at all. In this work, we report an experimental demonstration of covert communication that is provably secure against unbounded quantum adversaries. The covert communication is carried out over 10 km of optical fiber, addressing the challenges associated with transmission over metropolitan distances. We deploy the protocol in a dense wavelength-division multiplexing infrastructure, where our system has to coexist with a co-propagating C-band classical channel. The noise from the classical channel allows us to perform covert communication in a neighbouring channel. We perform an optimization of all protocol parameters and report the transmission of three different messages with varying levels of security. Our results showcase the feasibility of secure covert communication in a practical setting, with several possible future improvements from both theory and experiment. |
| title | Experimental unconditionally secure covert communication in dense wavelength-division multiplexing networks |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06755 |