Integrating Quantum Simulation for Quantum-Enhanced Classical Network Emulation
Quantum Physics
2021-10-05 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture
Abstract
We describe a method of investigating the near-term potential of quantum communication technology for communication networks from the perspective of current networks. For this, we integrate an instance of the quantum network simulator QuNetSim at the link layer into the communication network emulator ComNetsEmu. This novel augmented version of ComNetsEmu is thereby enabled to run arbitrary quantum protocols between any directly connected pair of network hosts. To give an example of the proposed method, we implement the link layer method of generating and storing entanglement while idle, to accelerate data transmission at later times using superdense coding.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2110.01437,
title = {Integrating Quantum Simulation for Quantum-Enhanced Classical Network Emulation},
author = {Stephen DiAdamo and Janis Nötzel and Simon Sekavčnik and Riccardo Bassoli and Roberto Ferrara and Christian Deppe and Frank Fitzek and Holger Boche},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01437},
year = {2021}
}