3 papers
cs.CR2026
A Throughput-Oriented Analytical Model for Post-Quantum Security Protocols
Ignazio Pedone, Stefano Pirandola
Growing awareness of the impact of quantum threat on classical cryptography directly translates into a growing demand for accurate network simulation tools capable of estimating th…
quant-ph2026
Free-Space Quantum Networks and Optimized Fiber-Reinforcement
Alasdair I. Fletcher, Ignazio Pedone, Stefano Pirandola
Free-space quantum communication provides a flexible complement to fiber-based quantum networks, but its point-to-point capacity is fundamentally limited by diffraction, atmospheri…
cs.ET2026
SQUIRO: A Framework for Security-Aware Quantum-Classical Scheduling on Kubernetes
Ignazio Pedone, Edoardo Giusto
Distributed infrastructure schedulers traditionally optimise capacity, locality, and cost, but provide limited support for security posture and emerging quantum-classical workloads…