Improving Parameter Optimization in Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution

Table 1

Parameters for the experiment and numerical simulations for four protocols. is the detection efficiency, denotes the optical misalignment, is the dark count rate, and is the number of emitted signals.

Protocol	(%)	(%)
BB84 [44]	10	1
Asymmetric MDI [45]	65	0.5
Symmetric MDI [29]	53	1.8
RFI-MDI [46]	12.5	0.5