Unboxing trustworthiness through quantum internet

Abstract

The unreliable nature of IoT systems drives practitioners to implement heavyweight fault tolerance mechanisms to identify those untrustworthy nodes that are misbehaving erratically and, thus, ensure that the sensed data from the IoT domain are correct. Quantum Internet might be a promising assistance to minimize traffic congestion and avoid worsening reliability due to the link saturation effect by using a quantum consensus layer. In this regard, the purpose of this paper is to explore and simulate the usage of quantum consensus architecture in one of the most challenging natural environments in the world where researchers need a responsive sensor network: the remote sensing of permafrost in Antarctica. More specifically, this paper describes the use case of permafrost remote sensing in Antarctica, proposes the usage of a quantum consensus management plane to reduce the traffic overhead associated with fault tolerance protocols, and discusses, by means of simulation, possible improvements to increase the trustworthiness of a holistic telemetry system by exploiting the complexity reduction offered by the quantum parallelism. Collected insights from this research can be generalized to current and forthcoming IoT environments.