TY - GEN
T1 - A Quantum Internet Architecture
AU - Meter, Rodney Van
AU - Satoh, Ryosuke
AU - Benchasattabuse, Naphan
AU - Teramoto, Kentaro
AU - Matsuo, Takaaki
AU - Hajdusek, Michal
AU - Satoh, Takahiko
AU - Nagayama, Shota
AU - Suzuki, Shigeya
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under award number FA2386-19-1-4038.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Entangled quantum communication is advancing rapidly, with laboratory and metropolitan testbeds under development, but to date there is no unifying Quantum Internet architecture. We propose a Quantum Internet architecture centered around the Quantum Recursive Network Architecture (QRNA), using RuleSet-based connections established using a two-pass connection setup. Scalability and internetworking (for both technological and administrative boundaries) are achieved using recursion in naming and connection control. In the near term, this architecture will support end-to-end, two-party entanglement on minimal hardware, and it will extend smoothly to multiparty entanglement and the use of quantum error correction on advanced hardware in the future. For a network internal gateway protocol, we recommend (but do not require) qDijkstra with seconds per Bell pair as link cost for routing; the external gateway protocol is designed to build recursively. The strength of our architecture is shown by assessing extensibility and demonstrating how robust protocol operation can be confirmed using the RuleSet paradigm.
AB - Entangled quantum communication is advancing rapidly, with laboratory and metropolitan testbeds under development, but to date there is no unifying Quantum Internet architecture. We propose a Quantum Internet architecture centered around the Quantum Recursive Network Architecture (QRNA), using RuleSet-based connections established using a two-pass connection setup. Scalability and internetworking (for both technological and administrative boundaries) are achieved using recursion in naming and connection control. In the near term, this architecture will support end-to-end, two-party entanglement on minimal hardware, and it will extend smoothly to multiparty entanglement and the use of quantum error correction on advanced hardware in the future. For a network internal gateway protocol, we recommend (but do not require) qDijkstra with seconds per Bell pair as link cost for routing; the external gateway protocol is designed to build recursively. The strength of our architecture is shown by assessing extensibility and demonstrating how robust protocol operation can be confirmed using the RuleSet paradigm.
KW - network architecture
KW - quantum communications
KW - quantum Internet
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U2 - 10.1109/QCE53715.2022.00055
DO - 10.1109/QCE53715.2022.00055
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85143626228
T3 - Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, QCE 2022
SP - 341
EP - 352
BT - Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, QCE 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, QCE 2022
Y2 - 18 September 2022 through 23 September 2022
ER -