Experimental Demonstration of DDoS Mitigation over a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Network Using Software Defined Networking (SDN)
E. Hugues-Salas, Foteini Ntavou, Yanni Ou, Jake Kennard, C. White, Dimitrios Gkounis, Konstantinos Nikolovgenis, George Theodore Kanellos, Chris Erven, A. Lord, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra E. Simeonidou · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2018
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