M.Sc. Samuel Leyikun Birhanu

PhD Researcher

Mr. Samuel Leyikun Birhanu is a PhD candidate at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communications Networks at the Technical University of Dresden.
His research interests focus on QUAS  which focuses on implementations of quantum secured future 6G networks . He has an MSc from the University of Trento, Italy, and a BSc from the Bahirdar Institute of Technology, Ethiopia. He has also been a junior researcher at CNRS, France, and worked on sequence detection with the Spiking Neural Network. He is skilled in C/C++, Java, Matlab, Python, and packet tracer simulation.

Research Interests

  • Quantum communication networks
  • Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD)
  • Control Plane

Reviews:

  • IEEE European Wireless 2024
  • Computer Networks 2024
  • IEEE World  Forum IOT 2025

Contact

Email: samuel_leyikun.birhanu@tu-dresden.de
Nöthnitzer Str. 67, B317

Project(s)

6G-QuaS

Publications

2025

Hai, Yilun; Wang, Yingjian; Birhanu, Samuel Leyikun; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Lightweight Error Correction Scheme for Quantum Key Distribution in IoT Proceedings Article

In: International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), pp. 6, Berlin, Germany, 2025.

BibTeX

Birhanu, Samuel Leyikun; Habibie, Muhammad Idham; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Key Management System for Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution Proceedings Article

In: IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), pp. 6, Bologna, Italy, 2025.

BibTeX

2024

Birhanu, Samuel Leyikun; Habibie, Muhammad Idham; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Quantum Key Distribution Protocol with Noises and Blind Eavesdroppers Proceedings Article

In: European Wireless 2024 (EW 2024), pp. 6, Brno, Czech Republic, 2024.

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