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Quantum networks are essential for advancing scalable quantum information processing. Quantum nonlocality sharing provides a crucial strategy for the resource-efficient recycling of quantum correlations, offering a promising pathway toward…

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Generating and distributing remote entangled pairs (EPs) is a primary function of quantum networks, as entanglement is the fundamental resource for key quantum network applications. A critical performance metric for quantum networks is the…

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Sharing entanglement among multiple users remains a central challenge for scalable quantum networks. Recent work proposed an on-demand entanglement packet architecture in which a controller uses a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Quang-Phong Tran , Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Quantum cloud computing is a promising paradigm for efficiently provisioning quantum resources (i.e., qubits) to users. In quantum cloud computing, quantum cloud providers provision quantum resources in reservation and on-demand plans for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Rakpong Kaewpuang , Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu , Zehui Xiong , Jiawen Kang

Wireless traffic that is destined for a certain device in a network, can be exploited in order to minimize the availability and delay trade-offs, and mitigate the Energy consumption. The Energy Conservation (EC) mechanism can be…

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Quantum networks are gaining momentum in finding applications in a wide range of domains. However, little research has investigated the potential of a quantum network framework to enable highly reliable communications. The goal of this work…

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We report an innovative model for predicting entanglement distribution between end parties of a quantum network using our in-house simulation algorithm. Our implementation is based on stochastic methods that are built upon a unique global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Tasmi R. Ahmed , Fares Nada , Amber Hussain , Connor Kupchak

We use a genetic algorithm (GA) as a design aid for determining the optimal provisioning of entangled photon spectrum in flex-grid quantum networks with arbitrary numbers of channels and users. After introducing a general model for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 J. Alnas , M. Alshowkan , N. S. V. Rao , N. A. Peters , J. M. Lukens

Quantum networks are of great interest of late which apply quantum mechanics to transfer information securely. One of the key properties which are exploited is entanglement to transfer information from one network node to another.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Dibakar Das , Shiva Kumar Malapaka , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

We introduce Qlustering, a quantum-inspired algorithm for unsupervised learning that leverages network-based quantum transport to perform data clustering. In contrast to traditional distance-based methods, Qlustering treats the steady-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shmuel Lorber , Yonatan Dubi

With a growing number of quantum networks in operation, there is a pressing need for performance analysis of quantum switching technologies. A quantum switch establishes, distributes, and maintains entanglements across a network. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Sanidhay Bhambay , Thirupathaiah Vasantam , Neil Walton

Coordination in distributed systems is often hampered by communication latency, which degrades performance. Quantum entanglement offers fundamentally stronger correlations than classically achievable without communication. Crucially, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Francisco Ferreira da Silva , Stephanie Wehner

We study a quantum entanglement distribution switch serving a set of users in a star topology with equal-length links. The quantum switch, much like a quantum repeater, can perform entanglement swapping to extend entanglement across longer…

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The evolving landscape of edge computing envisions platforms operating as dynamic intermediaries between application providers and edge servers (ESs), where task offloading is coupled with payments for computational services. Ensuring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting Xiaoyang , Minfeng Zhang , Shu gonglee , Saimin Chen Zhang

Distribution of entanglement is an essential task in quantum information processing and the realization of quantum networks. In our work, we theoretically investigate the scenario where a central source prepares an N-partite entangled state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Xinan Chen , Stefano Chessa , Ian George , Felix Leditzky , Eric Chitambar

Computation offloading and resource allocation are critical in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to handle the massive and complex requirements of applications restricted by limited resources. In a multi-user multi-server MEC network, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Shi , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

Quantum repeaters have promised efficient scaling of quantum networks for over two decades. Despite numerous platforms proclaiming functional repeaters, the realization of large-scale networks remains elusive, indicating that the resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Manik Dawar , Ralf Riedinger , Nilesh Vyas , Paulo Mendes

To support reliable and low-latency communication, Time-Sensitive Networking introduced protocols and interfaces for resource allocation in Ethernet. However, the implementation of these allocation algorithms has not yet been covered by the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Lisa Maile , Kai-Steffen Hielscher , Reinhard German

The integration of quantum communication protocols over Ethernet networks is proposed, showing the potential of combining classical and quantum technologies for efficient, scalable quantum networking. By leveraging the inherent strengths of…

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