https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-021-00116-9
Research
Quantum anonymous collision detection for quantum networks
Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, 17104, Yongin-si, Korea
d
hshin@khu.ac.kr
e
kyesan@khu.ac.kr
Received:
29
July
2021
Accepted:
22
November
2021
Published online:
7
December
2021
Quantum mechanics offers new opportunities for diverse information processing tasks in communication and computational networks. In the last two decades, the notion of quantum anonymity has been introduced in several networking tasks that provide an unconditional secrecy of identity for the communicating parties. In this article, we propose a quantum anonymous collision detection (QACD) protocol which detects not only the collision but also guarantees the anonymity in the case of multiple senders. We show that the QACD protocol serves as an important primitive for a quantum anonymous network that features tracelessness and resource efficiency. Furthermore, the security analysis shows that this protocol is robust against the adversary and malicious participants.
Key words: Collision detection / Quantum anonymity / Quantum communication / Quantum entanglement / Quantum networks
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