The present document describes the main communication resources involved in a QKD system and the possible architectures that can be adopted when performing a QKD deployment over an optical network infrastructure. The scope of the present document is restricted to QKD deployments over fibre optical networks. Architectural options are also restricted to point-to-point communication.
The present document specifies a communication protocol and data format for a quantum key distribution (QKD) network to supply cryptographic keys to an application.
The present document provides a definition of management interfaces for the integration of QKD in disaggregated network control plane architectures, in particular with Software-Defined Networking (SDN). It defines abstraction models and workflows between a SDN-enabled QKD node and the SDN controller, including resource discovery, capabilities dissemination and system configuration operations. Application layer interfaces and quantum-channel interfaces are out of scope.
SAREF4CITY is an extension of SAREF for the Smart Cities domain. This extension has been created by investigating resources from potential stakeholders of the ontology, such as standardization bodies, associations, IoT platforms and European projects and initiatives. Taking into account ontologies, data models, standards and datasets provided by the identified stakeholders, a set of requirements were identified and grouped in the following categories: Topology, Administrative Area, City Object, Event, Measurement, Key Performance Indicator, and Public Service.
SAREF4INMA focuses on extending SAREF for the industry and manufacturing domain to solve the lack of interoperability between various types of production equipment that produce items in a factory and, once outside the factory, between different organizations in the value chain to uniquely track back the produced items to the corresponding production equipment, batches, material and precise time in which they were manufactured.
SAREF4SYST defines Systems, Connections between systems, and Connection Points at which systems may be connected.
The Smart Applications REFerence ontology (SAREF) is intended to enable interoperability between solutions from different providers and among various activity sectors in the Internet of Things (IoT), thus contributing to the development of the global digital market.
The present document identifies the requirements that should characterise an ontology for the semantic conceptualisation of information related to IP traffic measurements. The requirements are obtained through the analysis of use cases spanning across a variety of related application categories and domains of interest, as well as the consideration of additional qualitative needs, such as the protection of personal data. Additional inputs arise from user experience, as well as the 'GS/MOI-010' Work Item study, entitled "Report on information models for IP traffic measurement" . The general difficulty of setting limits to an ontology, taking concepts from outside is also dealt within the present document that states MOI focus on IP traffic measurement concepts and let's side ontologies dealing with other subjects, an easy way to link. Thus a rather practical approach to define MOI ontology will be laid so that further QoS, traffic monitoring and Internet governance issues can be built on top of it by means of semantic tools.
The intention of SAREF4AGRI is to connect SAREF with existing ontologies and important standardization initiatives and ontologies in the Smart Agriculture and Food Chain domain, including ICAR for livestock data, AEF for agricultural equipment, Plant Ontology Consortium for plants, or AgGateway for IT support for arable farming.
The present document gives information on the long-term suitability of symmetric cryptographic primitives in the face of quantum computing.
The present document presents the results of a simplified threat assessment following the guidelines of ETSI TS 102 165-1 [i.3] for a number of use cases. The method and key results of the analysis is described in clause 4. The present document makes a number of assumptions regarding the timescale for the deployment of viable quantum computers, however the overriding assertion is that quantum computing will become viable in due course. This is examined in more detail in clause 5. The impact of quantum computing attacks on the cryptographic deployments used in a number of existing industrial deployment scenarios are considered in clause 7.