H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

Green-MIQUEC · Low-powered microwave quantum-enhanced communication: conceptualisation and preliminary design

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-03-01 → 2022-02-28
Финансиране от ЕС: 190 681 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Квантовите микровълни се изследват за създаване на сигурна комуникация между сензори, подобно на начина, по който етикетите за проследяване връщат сигнал към сървър. Това помага за повишаване на ефективността и сигурността на бъдещите мрежи от свързани устройства (IoT).

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Резултати накратко

Low-powered microwave quantum-enhanced communication: conceptualisation and preliminary design

This project aims to design a quantum-secure protocol for open-air microwave quantum communication working with low-powered electronics. At the fundamental level, this proposal investigates the conditions for implementing metrological protocols using propagating quantum microwaves. In particular, the project investigates how to use open-air quantum microwaves - be in space or in the atmosphere - in order to apply a quantum version of backscatter communication showing a quantum advantage in realistic scenarios. In backscatter communication, a signal sent by a server is scattered back by a tag, that embeds the information via a passive operation. This operation can be implemented without spending energy. It is an important paradigm for the Internet of Things (IoT) scenario, where a group of objects embedded with sensors in the same environment is able to exchange information with users via a communication network. The quantum advantage consists in performing the protocol in a more efficient way with respect to using classically available technology, and ensuring unconditionally security through the concept of "covertness". Backscatter communication is seen as a promising candidate for the sixth generation of massive machine-type communication solutions. IoT technology itself has applications that range from smart homes, where household appliances are connected to a unique server and their status can be checked and controlled remotely, to healthcare and general industrial process controls. Therefore, the results of this project have strong implications beyond their inherent academic values. Indeed, improving the security and efficiency of IoT-like protocols is a great deal for the next-generation technology. This project put the basis for future development on the quantum-secureness and efficiency of backscatter communication protocol, via key results on quantum/classical covert communication and by proposing entanglement-assisted protocols aimed to improve the capacity of the communicating channels.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This proposal is a contribution of quantum technologies to the communications engineering field, with a potentially high societal impact. Its aim is to theoretical study low-powered microwave quantum communication protocols in realistic scenarios, via developing a quantum-enhanced version of Ambient Backscatter Communication (AmBC). This is a high-innovative paradigm that makes use of signals already present in the environment - e.g. generated by a TV-tower - in order to implement low-powered communication between devices, with applications in healthcare and wireless communication. The quantum-enhanced version will gain largely in energy-efficiency with respect to the current quantum BC and quantum radar designs, keeping the same quantum advantage. The proposal will approach the problem at different levels of knowledge: from the fundamental level to the final engineering design. I will build a rigorous framework based on resource theory for how to use open-air quantum microwaves to perform a quantum-enhanced backscatter communication in a very lossy scenario. This will be used to introduce a novel microwave quantum illumination protocol based on Schrödinger's cat states instead of Gaussian states. My approach will need only passive devices and no photodetection, solving major issues for a microwave implementation and allowing to extend the paradigm to the low-powered AmBC case. This is a multidisciplinary project, touching aspects of quantum information, low-temperature physics and communications engineering, for which there will be a double transfer-of-knowledge with the Aalto staff members. The research training will be complemented by a set of transferable skills including Self- and Team-Leadership, Pedagogy, Communication, which will make me more employable both inside and outside academia. The host has been chosen as the only EU place with both experts in AmBC and superconducting circuits in the staff.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · EspooКоординаторФинландия