Building a Hierarchical Architecture and Communication Model for the Quantum Internet
<|reference_start|>Building a Hierarchical Architecture and Communication Model for the Quantum Internet: The research of architecture has tremendous significance in realizing quantum Internet. Although there is not yet a standard quantum Internet architecture, the distributed architecture is one of the possible solutions, which utilizes quantum repeaters or dedicated entanglement sources in a flat structure for entanglement preparation & distribution. In this paper, we analyze the distributed architecture in detail and demonstrate that it has three limitations: 1) possible high maintenance overhead, 2) possible low-performance entanglement distribution, and 3) unable to support optimal entanglement routing. We design a hierarchical quantum Internet architecture and a communication model to solve the problems above. We also present a W-state Based Centralized Entanglement Preparation & Distribution (W-state Based CEPD) scheme and a Centralized Entanglement Routing (CER) algorithm within our hierarchical architecture and perform an experimental comparison with other entanglement preparation & distribution schemes and entanglement routing algorithms within the distributed architecture. The evaluation results show that the entanglement distribution efficiency of hierarchical architecture is 11.5% higher than that of distributed architecture on average (minimum 3.3%, maximum 37.3%), and the entanglement routing performance of hierarchical architecture is much better than that of a distributed architecture according to the fidelity and throughput.<|reference_end|>
@article{he2024building,
    title={Building a Hierarchical Architecture and Communication Model for the
  Quantum Internet},
    author={Binjie He, Dong Zhang, Seng W. Loke, Shengrui Lin, and Luke Lu},
    journal={IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 42, no. 7,
  pp. 1919-1935, July 2024},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1109/JSAC.2024.3380103},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.11806},
    primaryClass={quant-ph cs.NI}
}