| Experimental Demonstration of DDoS Mitigation over a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Network Using Software Defined Networking (SDN)
System
- E. Hugues-Salas, F. Ntavou, Y. Ou, J. E. Kennard, C. White, D. Gkounis, K. Nikolovgenis, G. Kanellos, C. Erven, A. Lord, R. Nejabati, D. Simeonidou
- 2018
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, DDoS mitigation of QKD-based networks utilizing a software defined network application. Successful quantum-secured link allocation is achieved after a DDoS attack based on real-time monitoring of quantum parameters.