Performance Analysis of One- and Two-way DV-QKD with MIMO FSO Communication Systems

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Hauptverfasser: Kumar, Sushil, Dash, Soumya P., Alexandropoulos, George C.
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author Kumar, Sushil
Dash, Soumya P.
Alexandropoulos, George C.
author_facet Kumar, Sushil
Dash, Soumya P.
Alexandropoulos, George C.
contents This paper considers a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system wherein two legitimate users attempt to exchange secret keys over free-space optical (FSO) channels. Novel frameworks for the use of the one- and two-way discrete-variable quantum key distribution (DV-QKD) protocols, employing weak coherent pulses and decoy states, are presented. Focusing on the case where a photon-number-splitting attack is adopted by the eavesdropper and the legitimate multi-antenna receiver using threshold detection for the key extraction, novel expressions for the secret key rate and quantum bit error rate for both one- and two-way protocols are derived. The performance gain with larger MIMO configurations and the tradeoff between the performances with the one- and the two-way protocols with respect to the transmission distance of the legitimate FSO link are numerically assessed.
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spellingShingle Performance Analysis of One- and Two-way DV-QKD with MIMO FSO Communication Systems
Kumar, Sushil
Dash, Soumya P.
Alexandropoulos, George C.
Quantum Physics
Signal Processing
This paper considers a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system wherein two legitimate users attempt to exchange secret keys over free-space optical (FSO) channels. Novel frameworks for the use of the one- and two-way discrete-variable quantum key distribution (DV-QKD) protocols, employing weak coherent pulses and decoy states, are presented. Focusing on the case where a photon-number-splitting attack is adopted by the eavesdropper and the legitimate multi-antenna receiver using threshold detection for the key extraction, novel expressions for the secret key rate and quantum bit error rate for both one- and two-way protocols are derived. The performance gain with larger MIMO configurations and the tradeoff between the performances with the one- and the two-way protocols with respect to the transmission distance of the legitimate FSO link are numerically assessed.
title Performance Analysis of One- and Two-way DV-QKD with MIMO FSO Communication Systems
topic Quantum Physics
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05173