Patent ID: 11936777
Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. The method of claim 3, wherein, generating, by the OLT, a key request period for each key request according to the quantity of secret-keys to be provisioned comprises:
with respect to each key request pair, adding the quantity of secret-keys required by the two key requests of the key request pair and taking the summation as the quantity of secret-keys required by the key request pair;
determining, by the OLT, the quantity of secret-keys that can be generated in one time slot;
calculating, by the OLT, the quantity of time slots required by each key request according to the ratio of the quantity of secret-keys to be provisioned for each key request and the quantity of secret-keys that can be generated in one time slot; and
generating, by the OLT, the key request period for each key request according to the quantity of time slots required by the key request.