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Opportunistic coding can take advantage of channel characteristic to maximize the gain from network coding. The achievement of air-to-ground quantum key distribution represents a key milestone toward quantum communication in free space. Thus it is worth concerning whether quantum network coding with opportunistic characteristic is also feasible or not. In this chapter, we introduce a quantum network coding scheme with opportunistic characteristic by taking full advantage of channel characteristic of quantum teleportation. The problem of how to distinguish between legal listener and illegal eavesdropper is well solved.
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Shang, T., Liu, J. (2020). Opportunistic Quantum Network Coding. In: Secure Quantum Network Coding Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3386-0_6
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