main goal: Design architectures and implement Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) technologies in high-performance photonic integrated circuits (PIC), define the related interfaces and control protocols to allow a network-aware software defined functionality and open modular development that can meet the needs of the secure telecommunications.
nextworks role:
Model QKD control network, lead the development activities on Software defined QKD control plane and evaluate QKD systems in telecom infrastructures.
other key partners:
Telefonica (ES), Orange (FR), Huawei (DE), Mellanox (IL), Fraunhofer (DE), Univ. Politecnica Madrid (ES)
duration:
36 months, Start: 1/Oct/2018
project link: http://civiquantum.eu/
