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2026
Boosting Information Reconciliation for Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution Over a Satellite Downlink Channel
Leveraging the a priori information on the instantaneous QBER, the efficiency of information reconciliation in the Decoy-State BB84 protocol is improved, resulting in a secure key that is almost 3% longer for realistic scenarios, with no computational or hardware complexity overhead.
Thomas Scarinzi, D. Orsucci, Marco Ferrari et al.
· IEEE Transactions on Quantum... · 0 citations