Quantum Technology Capital: UKQNtel - Bringing the Telecoms Industry to the UK Quantum Network

量子技术资本：UKQNtel - 将电信行业引入英国量子网络

• 批准号: EP/N015207/1
• 负责人: Timothy Spiller
• 金额: $ 261.09万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN015207%2F1
• 关键词: Quantum; Technology; Capital; UKQNtel; Bringing

Quantum communications technologies are new, disruptive technologies that can outperform what we use today, by providing security based upon the laws of physics. Current prototypes employ quantum uncertainty and randomness for security, and next-generation technologies may well use the even weirder and counter-intuitive feature of entanglement. Information security is absolutely essential everywhere today - for individuals, institutions, businesses, governments and nations. Current secure communications systems have some vulnerabilities, some at risk now and others that may be exposed in the future, as computing power and hacking techniques improve. Secure communications based on quantum physics can eliminate some of these vulnerabilities, providing systems whose security is underpinned by the laws of Nature, for example providing for the secure distribution of cryptographic keys.Through EPSRC, the UK government is investing heavily in development across a spectrum of new quantum technologies, of which communications form a part. The Quantum Communications Hub is funded to develop current quantum key distribution (QKD) prototypes through to commercial readiness and to turn next-generation quantum communications demonstrations into prototype technologies. The aim is:- to develop short-range, low cost QKD for mobile devices such as 'phones;- to develop chip-scale QKD modules, for ease of manufacture and widespread and versatile deployment; - to investigate new directions in quantum communications, going beyond simple QKD, for example to quantum versions of digital signatures for signing electronic messages or documents;- to demonstrate QKD over networks and its integration with conventional communications.The new project UKQNtel builds on the last of these directions. It will connect BT Research and the major ICT and telecommunications cluster at Adastral Park, Martlesham, to the UK Quantum Network (UKQN) being built by the Quantum Communications Hub. This will enable new and direct collaborations between companies at Adastral Park and the Hub partners, accelerating innovation. It will offer QKD and trial quantum-encrypted data services to a large cluster of companies in the very important telecommunications sector. It will enable major Showcase and Demonstration events for quantum technologies, utilizing the outstanding facilities at Adastral Park.There is great potential for the UK to become a world-leader in the new quantum communications technologies and services arena - for individuals, institutions, businesses and government. In addition to the development of the technologies, it is vital to engage early across the whole spectrum of end-users, to generate "market pull". UKQNtel will crucially enable this early user engagement for the telecommunications and large business sector at Adastral Park. This will complement the consumer engagement in Bristol and the SME engagement on Cambridge Science Park already being pursued by the Quantum Communications Hub. Putting all this together will address user engagement for the whole spectrum of future markets.

量子通信技术是一种新的颠覆性技术，通过提供基于物理定律的安全，可以超越我们今天使用的技术。目前的原型使用量子不确定性和随机性来确保安全，下一代技术很可能使用更奇怪和反直觉的纠缠特征。信息安全在今天的任何地方都是绝对必要的--对于个人、机构、企业、政府和国家来说。随着计算能力和黑客技术的提高，当前的安全通信系统存在一些漏洞，其中一些现在处于危险之中，另一些可能在未来暴露出来。基于量子物理的安全通信可以消除其中一些漏洞，提供其安全性以自然定律为基础的系统，例如提供加密密钥的安全分发。通过EPSRC，英国政府正大举投资于一系列新量子技术的开发，通信是其中的一部分。量子通信中心的资金用于开发当前的量子密钥分发(QKD)原型，一直到商业就绪，并将下一代量子通信演示转化为原型技术。其目标是：-为手机等移动设备开发短距离、低成本的量子密钥分发；-开发芯片级量子密钥分发模块，以便于制造和广泛而通用的部署；-研究量子通信的新方向，超越简单的量子密钥分发，例如用于签署电子信息或文件的数字签名的量子版本；-展示网络上的量子密钥分发及其与传统通信的集成。新项目UKQNtel建立在这些方向的最后一个基础上。它将把英国电信研究公司和位于马特勒沙姆阿达斯塔尔公园的主要信息和通信技术和电信集群与量子通信中心正在建设的英国量子网络(UKQN)连接起来。这将使Adastal Park的公司和Hub合作伙伴之间实现新的直接合作，加速创新。它将向非常重要的电信领域的一大批公司提供量子密钥分发和试行量子加密数据服务。它将使大型量子技术展示和演示活动成为可能，利用星际公园的卓越设施。英国有巨大的潜力成为新的量子通信技术和服务领域的世界领先者-面向个人、机构、企业和政府。除了技术的发展，重要的是及早与所有终端用户接触，以产生“市场拉动”。UKQNtel将为Adstral Park的电信和大企业部门提供关键的早期用户参与。这将是对布里斯托尔消费者参与和剑桥科技园中小企业参与的补充，量子通信中心已经在进行这一活动。将所有这些放在一起，将解决用户对整个未来市场的参与度。

项目成果

Performance Analysis on Co-Existence of COW-QKD and Classical DWDM Channels Transmission in UK National Quantum Networks

• DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2023.3246175
• 发表时间: 2023-08
• 期刊: Journal of Lightwave Technology
• 影响因子: 4.7
• 作者: Xiao-Jiao Duan;J. Pearse;A. Wonfor;C. White;A. Bahrami;A. Straw;Tim Edwards;R. Penty;Andrew Lord;Rupesh Kumar;Tim Spiller

5G network slicing with QKD and quantum-safe security

采用 QKD 和量子安全的 5G 网络切片

• DOI: 10.1364/jocn.413918
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Wright P