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access icon free Performance evaluation and security analysis of ground-to-satellite FSO system with CV-QKD protocol

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Received 05/08/2019, Accepted 18/02/2020, Revised 05/02/2020, Published 20/02/2020

This study evaluates the performance of a secure ground-to-satellite free-space optical (FSO) system using a bipolar pulse amplitude modulation over modulated gamma fading channel. A closed-form expression is derived for the joint probability of a satellite-based continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) protocol that uses dual-threshold detection. Furthermore, to study the system behaviour, closed-form expressions for quantum bit-error-rate (QBER) and quantum bit-discard rate (QBDR) are given. The accuracy of the proposed derivations is validated using Monte-Carlo simulations and numerical analysis. The dual-threshold range is optimised to satisfy design criteria in terms of QBER and QBDR. Finally, a sufficient selection of transmitter and receiver parameters ensures a guarantee of system security. Additionally, the information capacity is maximised by a scaling coefficient of .

Inspec keywords: satellite communication; probability; fading channels; quantum cryptography; Monte Carlo methods; pulse amplitude modulation; error statistics; cryptographic protocols; free-space optical communication

Other keywords: quantum bit-error-rate; information capacity; numerical analysis; ground-to-satellite free-space optical system; closed-form expressions; modulated gamma fading channel; closed-form expression; Monte-Carlo simulations; quantum bit-discard rate; dual-threshold detection; QBDR; joint probability; performance evaluation; ground-to-satellite FSO system; transmitter parameter selection; system security; dual-threshold range; bipolar pulse amplitude modulation; satellite-based continuous-variable quantum key distribution; scaling coefficient; CV-QKD protocol; receiver parameter selection; system behaviour; security analysis; QBER

Subjects: Optical communication; Cryptography; Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; Data security; Monte Carlo methods; Monte Carlo methods; Free-space optical links; Quantum cryptography; Protocols

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