We are pleased to announce that the following paper has been accepted
for publication at the 4th Information Security Practice and Experience
Conference (ISPEC'08) that will take place in Sydney, Australia, 21-23
April 2008.
Cuong Le Quoc and Patrick Bellot and Akim Demaille. Towards the
World-Wide Quantum Network.
http://publis.lrde.epita.fr/200804-ISPEC
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks are of much interest due to
their capacity of providing extremely high security keys to network
participants. Most QKD network studies so far focus on trusted models
where all the network nodes are assumed to be perfectly secured. This
restricts QKD networks to be small. In this paper, we first develop a
novel model dedicated to large-scale QKD networks, some of whose nodes
could be eavesdropped secretely. Then, we investigate the key
transmission problem in the new model by an approach based on
percolation theory and stochastic routing. Analyses show that under
computable conditions large-scale QKD networks could protect secret keys
with an extremely high probability. Simulations validate our results.
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Daniela Becker