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High-Speed Post-Processing in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Based on FPGA Implementation

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杨申申 (Shenshen Yang)
卢振国 (Zhenguo Lu)
李永民 (Yongmin Li) *
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2020.2985408delete
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In a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system, the computation speed of the post-processing procedure, including information reconciliation (IR) and privacy amplification (PA), inevitably affects the practical secret key rate. IR and PA can be implemented in parallel using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and hash functions, respectively. We achieve high-speed hardware-accelerated post-processing procedure for Gaussian symbols on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) by taking advantage of its superior parallel processing ability. To this end, the sum-product algorithm decoders and a modified LDPC codes construction algorithm adapted to FPGA's characteristics are developed and employed. Two different structures including multiplexing and non-multiplexing are designed to achieve the trade-off between the speed and area of FPGAs, so that an optimal scheme can be adopted according to the requirement of a practical system. Simulation results show that the maximum throughput can reach 100M symbols/s. We verified the correctness of the post-processing procedures when implemented on the Xilinx VC709 evaluation board, which is populated with the Virtex-7 XC7VX690T FPGA and provided some possible solutions to obtain better performance when more advanced FPGAs are available. The scheme can be applied readily for real-time key extraction and effectively reduce power consumption of the CV-QKD system.
Keywords:
Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD)
FPGA
post-processing
real-time
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