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 that both meets an appropriate application-driven networking quality metric, and is robust to noise, workload dynamics, eavesdroppers, and failures.
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.
Thrust 1 Lead
Don Towsley
Distinguished Professor
University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Thrust 1 Pillar Integration
Research
- Hardware requirements & sub-system capabilities
- Thrust 2, Thrust 4, and Research Testbeds
- Applications Roadmap
Diversity & Culture of Inclusion
- QuEST Participation
- Diverse student recruitment
- Mentoring
Engineering Workforce Development
- Undergraduate internships
- Development of Quantum Network courses and modules
- Hands-on training
Innovation Ecosystem
- Applications Roadmap
- Inventions & patents
- Protocols (QTCP)
- Standards