Quantum Communication

The evolution of classical communication technologies is experiencing an intrinsic limitation of the capabilities due to the trade-offs implied by the established key performance indicators. Then, new different communication resources should be researched to go beyond such limitations in order to achieve the 6G and beyond requirements. Our research focuses on studying, designing, and evaluating the employment of quantum-mechanical technologies in future 6G and beyond communication networks. By exploiting quantum coherence and entanglement as communication and computing resources, future classical-quantum communication networks can achieve performances that classical communications could not have achieved, mainly in terms of security, throughput, latency, and energy efficiency. Our scientific investigation involves quantum error correction, quantum networking, quantum randomness for 6G and beyond, and evaluation of quantum communications via classical simulation-emulation platforms. The work also involves the research on how quantum resources can be beneficial for the different use cases of 6G networks, for industry, health, and the Internet of Things.