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

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 1, wherein, generating, by the OLT, the QKD receiver, two QKD transmitters corresponding to the source ONU and the destination ONU of the key request and the quantum relay, at least one secret-key according to the quantity of secret-keys to be provisioned for the key request comprises:
generating, by the OLT, a key request period for each key request according to the quantity of secret-keys to be generated;
configuring, by the OLT, an SKP period according to the SKP queue and the key request period of each key request, wherein the SKP period is a sum of all the key request periods in the SKP queue; and
generating, by the QKD receiver, two QKD transmitters corresponding to the source ONU and the destination ONU of the key request and the quantum relay, at least one secret-key according to the quantity of secret-keys to be provisioned for the key request in the SKP period.