Centralizing Task-based Approach to Quantum Network Control

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Autori principali: Pirker, Alexander, Hayek, Robert J., Kolar, Alexander, Kadota, Igor, Chung, Joaquin, Kettimuthu, Rajkumar
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Pirker, Alexander
Hayek, Robert J.
Kolar, Alexander
Kadota, Igor
Chung, Joaquin
Kettimuthu, Rajkumar
author_facet Pirker, Alexander
Hayek, Robert J.
Kolar, Alexander
Kadota, Igor
Chung, Joaquin
Kettimuthu, Rajkumar
contents For the last decade, layered stacks have dominated the way of reasoning about architectures for quantum networks. However, layered architectures impose stringent design and timing constraints on quantum networks, adding additional latency to the time required to serve an entanglement generation request. Moreover, increasing delays from the layered approach to network control causes degradation of state, effectively minimizing achievable fidelities. In this work we simulate a resource-centric, task-based approach to quantum network control by utilizing a centralized controller. Using the SeQUeNCe quantum network simulator, we implement the centralized controller which tracks quantum memory availability across all nodes, and schedules objectives in an offline fashion using a priority-based scheduler. We evaluate the performance of this controller on multiple topologies (bottleneck, grid, star, caveman) of significant scale, with varying reservation patterns; thereby we demonstrate the viability of the resource-centric task-based quantum network control framework for scaling. Our simulation results show that the caveman and grid topologies have a higher fraction of delivered requests with low delay compared to the star topology, but with a higher fraction of highly delayed requests as well. Furthermore, we find a linear shift of the CDFs in terms of queue size for all topologies depending on the reservation delay. More interestingly, we conclude that the CDFs of priority queues for the star topology converge fast into saturation for increasing request arrival rates, demonstrating together with the other results that the framework is robust for high load scenarios in quantum networks.
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Pirker, Alexander
Hayek, Robert J.
Kolar, Alexander
Kadota, Igor
Chung, Joaquin
Kettimuthu, Rajkumar
Quantum Physics
For the last decade, layered stacks have dominated the way of reasoning about architectures for quantum networks. However, layered architectures impose stringent design and timing constraints on quantum networks, adding additional latency to the time required to serve an entanglement generation request. Moreover, increasing delays from the layered approach to network control causes degradation of state, effectively minimizing achievable fidelities. In this work we simulate a resource-centric, task-based approach to quantum network control by utilizing a centralized controller. Using the SeQUeNCe quantum network simulator, we implement the centralized controller which tracks quantum memory availability across all nodes, and schedules objectives in an offline fashion using a priority-based scheduler. We evaluate the performance of this controller on multiple topologies (bottleneck, grid, star, caveman) of significant scale, with varying reservation patterns; thereby we demonstrate the viability of the resource-centric task-based quantum network control framework for scaling. Our simulation results show that the caveman and grid topologies have a higher fraction of delivered requests with low delay compared to the star topology, but with a higher fraction of highly delayed requests as well. Furthermore, we find a linear shift of the CDFs in terms of queue size for all topologies depending on the reservation delay. More interestingly, we conclude that the CDFs of priority queues for the star topology converge fast into saturation for increasing request arrival rates, demonstrating together with the other results that the framework is robust for high load scenarios in quantum networks.
title Centralizing Task-based Approach to Quantum Network Control
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03336