A 802.11 MAC Protocol Adaptation for Quantum Communications

In this work, a novel medium access control method for classical and quantum communications purposes is proposed. Quantum communications promise secure ways to send valuable information, therefore quantum-device network and quantum medium access control methods which avoids information loss will be necessary. On the other hand, excessive colliding transmissions in congested situations are a problem for classical wireless communications. Quantum parallelism and quantum multipartite entanglement are exploited to design a MAC sub layer which provides the devices a fair and efficient access to the channel.

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