Title
Order Matters: On the Impact of Swapping Order on an Entanglement Path in a Quantum Network
Abstract
In this paper, we study the properties of path metrics of an entanglement path for a given entanglement swapping order of the path. We show how to efficiently compute the path metrics of an entanglement path for any given swapping order. We show that different entanglement swapping orders for the same path can lead to different expected throughputs. A key finding is that the binary operator corresponding to entanglement swapping along a path is not associative. We further show that the problem of computing an s-t path with maximum expected throughput under any entanglement swapping order does not have the subpath optimality property, which is a key property most path finding algorithms such as Dijkstra's algorithm rely on. We use extensive simulations to validate our theoretical findings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS54753.2022.9798254
IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Entanglement routing, entanglement swapping, expected throughput, path metrics, quantum networks
Conference
2159-4228
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alena Chang100.34
Guoliang Xue2489.12