Thrust 1: Quantum Network Architecture
Designing the infrastructure to support future city-scale quantum networks.
About Thrust 1
A team of computer scientists and network engineers is working with optical physicists and material scientists to design architectures and protocols for a quantum internet that seamlessly interoperates with the classical (conventional) internet. These protocols are being tested at the Tucson testbed.
The goal of Thrust 1 is to architect and build a Quantum Network, with its associated protocols, that provides shared entanglement and quantum information transfer reliably to users, meets an appropriate application-driven networking quality metric, and is robust to noise, workload dynamics, eavesdroppers, and failures.
Thrust 1 Lead
Don Towsley
Distinguished Professor
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Thrust 1 Projects
Quantum Network Capacity
Developing algorithms for routing and scheduling entanglement flows in a quantum network.
Quantum Routing and Scheduling
Resource allocation policies that can achieve peak performance in the face of noise and memory decoherence.
Quantum Network Tomography
Inferring a characterization for noise in the transmission of quantum information through links of a quantum network.
Developing techniques, protocols, and algorithms for characterizing channels connecting network nodes such as repeaters and switches.
Quantum Network Simulation
Developing predictive entanglement generation simulations.
Establishing virtual quantum network labs.
Developing a mixed-signal multi-formalism quantum simulator.