Quantum Wrapper Networking
Abstract
We introduce a new concept of Quantum Wrapper Networking, which enables control, management, and operation of quantum networks that can co-exist with classical networks while keeping the requirements for quantum networks intact. The quantum wrapper networks (QWNs) enable the transparent and interoperable transportation of quantum wrapper datagrams consisting of quantum payloads and, notably, classical headers to facilitate the datagram switching without measuring or disturbing the qubits of the quantum payload. Furthermore, QWNs can utilize the common network control and management for performance monitoring on the classical header and infer the quantum channel quality.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.00591,
title = {Quantum Wrapper Networking},
author = {S. J. Ben Yoo and Sandeep Kumar Singh and Mehmet Berkay On and Gamze Gul and Gregory S. Kanter and Roberto Proietti and Prem Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.00591},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
This manuscript has 5 figures and 7 pages. The very early version of the initial concept of Quantum Wrapper Networking was published in IEEE Photonics Conference 2021 followed by Optical Communications Conference 2023 Paper Tu3H.4 (referenced as [12])