Quantum computing provides a new way for approaching problem solving, enabling efficient solutions for problems that are hard on classical computers. It is based on leveraging how quantum particles behave. With researchers around the world showing quantum supremacy and the availability of cloud-based quantum computers with free accounts for researchers, quantum computing is becoming a reality. In this paper, we explore both the opportunities and challenges that quantum computing has for location determination research. Specifically, we introduce an example for the expected gain of using quantum algorithms by providing an efficient quantum implementation of the well-known RF fingerprinting algorithm and run it on an instance of the IBM Quantum Experience computer. The proposed quantum algorithm has a complexity that is exponentially better than its classical algorithm version, both in space and running time. We further discuss both software and hardware research challenges and opportunities that researchers can build on to explore this exciting new domain.
Quantum computing provides a new way for approaching problem solving, enabling efficient solutions for problems that are hard on classical computers. It is based on leveraging how quantum particles behave. With researchers around the world showing quantum supremacy and the availability of cloud-based quantum computers with free accounts for researchers, quantum computing is becoming a reality. In this paper, we explore both the opportunities and challenges that quantum computing has for location determination research. Specifically, we introduce an example for the expected gain of using quantum algorithms by providing an efficient quantum implementation of the well-known RF fingerprinting algorithm and run it on an instance of the IBM Quantum Experience computer. The proposed quantum algorithm has a complexity that is exponentially better than its classical algorithm version, both in space and running time. We further discuss both software and hardware research challenges and opportunities that researchers can build on to explore this exciting new domain.
Quantum computing provides a new way for approaching problem solving, enabling efficient solutions for problems that are hard on classical computers. With researchers around the world showing quantum supremacy and the availability of cloud-based quantum computers, quantum computing is becoming a reality. In this paper, we explore the different directions of the use of quantum computing for location tracking and spatial systems. Specifically, we show an example for the expected gain of using quantum computing for localization by providing an efficient quantum algorithm for RF fingerprinting localization. The proposed quantum algorithm has a complexity that is exponentially better than its classical algorithm version, both in space and running time. We further discuss both software and hardware research challenges and opportunities that researchers can build on to explore this exciting new domain.
Fingerprinting is one of the mainstream technologies for localization. However, it needs significant storage overhead and running time, preventing it from scaling to support world-wide indoor/outdoor localization.Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize computation by making some classically intractable problems solvable on quantum computers. In this paper, we propose a quantum fingerprint-based localization algorithm for enabling large-scale location tracking systems, envisioning future era of location tracking and spatial systems. Specifically, we propose a quantum algorithm that provides an exponential enhancement of both the space and running time complexity compared to the traditional classical systems. We give the details of how to build the quantum fingerprint, how to encode the received signal strength (RSS) measurements in quantum particles, and finally; present a quantum algorithm for calculating the cosine similarity between the online RSS measurements and the fingerprint ones.Results from deploying our algorithm in three real testbeds on IBM Quantum Experience machines confirm the ability of our quantum system to get the same accuracy as the classical one but with the potential exponential saving in both space and running time.
Fingerprinting is one of the most commonly used techniques for indoor localization due to their high accuracy in the presence of the wireless channel noise. Nonetheless, they require significant storage overhead and running time. This becomes even more important when scaling such systems to a worldwide scale.Quantum computing can speedup computation of intractable problems that are hard to solve on the traditional classical computers. In this paper, we propose a realistic quantum fingerprint based algorithm that builds on quantum computing concepts to scale. In particular, the proposed fingerprinting algorithm can provide exponential enhancement in both space and running time over the classical fingerprinting techniques. We explain the details of the quantum fingerprint construction, how to encode the fingerprint signal strength vectors in quantum states, and how to calculate the quantum similarity between the online signal strength measurement and the offline ones. In addition, we study the different practical implementation and deployment issues on IBM quantum computing cloud machines.Implementation and evaluation of our algorithm in a real testbed using quantum machines confirms its ability to correctly obtain the estimated location with an exponential enhancement in both time and space compared to the traditional classical fingerprinting techniques. This highlights the promise of our algorithm to scale fingerprinting localization to be used globally.
Quantum computing is poised to revolutionize the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Recent technological advancements have led to several challenges in modern computing, where conventional systems struggle to efficiently solve complex problems such as complicated chemical structures, supply chains, financial modeling, and risk evaluation [1]. Quantum computing, with its unique ability to harness the principles of quantum mechanics, offers a promising solution to these challenges. Moreover, the emergence of cloud-based quantum computing services is democratizing this transformative technology, allowing startups and researchers to experiment with quantum algorithms without the need for their own quantum hardware. [2] This research paper explores the convergence of quantum computing and cloud-based artificial intelligence, highlighting the potential for a new era of intelligent computing that can tackle complex problems with unprecedented speed and efficiency. The recent demonstration of quantum supremacy, where a quantum computer outperformed a classical computer in a specific task, has been a significant milestone in the field of quantum computing. However, there is still much progress to be made on the road to solving real-world problems with quantum computers and achieving quantum advantage. While the field of quantum computing is still in its early stages, the anticipated opportunities offered by the unique computational power of quantum computers have attracted investment from research universities, technology giants, startups, and governments around the world. As the field continues to advance, the synergy between quantum computing and cloud-based artificial intelligence is poised to usher in a new era of intelligent computing, where complex problems can be solved with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
However, quantum computing and its paradigm are being developed because quantum physics processes perform computation that is otherwise impossible to do with classical computing processes.Quantum cloud computing allows the integration of quantum computing with the cloud infrastructure to enable problems in optimization, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and large-scale data processing to be developed.In this paper, we have listed the advancements, challenges, and methodologies of quantum cloud computing that impact quantum algorithms in cloud computing.We discuss the use of quantum hardware on clouds, which will eventually lead to widespread adoption and a new high-performance computing era.It is then evaluated as a possible way of quantum computing in practical applications and compares different quantum algorithms in scenarios of cloud-based computing.Moreover, we implement a literature survey of methods for introducing quantum into the cloud infrastructure and show the benefits of quantum-enhanced cloud computing using our experimental results.As such, our research concludes that quantum hardware, software and novel quantum-classical hybrid models for applicability in the real world continue to need to advance.
Abstract Quantum computing leverages fundamental quantum-mechanical phenomena—most notably superposition, entanglement, and quantum tunneling—to perform computations in ways that differ fundamentally from classical digital processing. Compared to conventional computing architectures, quantum systems promise significant reductions in computational time and potentially lower energy consumption for specific classes of problems. These advantages, combined with advances in nanoscale engineering and the slowing of traditional hardware scaling trends such as Moore’s Law, have led to substantial commercial and national-security-driven investments in quantum technologies over the past decade. A major milestone was reached when Google announced the experimental demonstration of “quantum supremacy,” showing that a quantum processor could execute a specific computational task infeasible for a classical supercomputer within practical time constraints. Although the demonstrated problem had no immediate practical application, this achievement marked a crucial step toward the development of quantum systems capable of delivering real-world computational advantages and provided a more precise technical framing of the concept of quantum advantage. Despite the fact that the mathematical foundations, programming models, and principal quantum algorithms were established in the 1990s, quantum computing remained largely confined to a specialized research community for decades. Today, the increasing accessibility of cloud-based quantum hardware calls for a broader dissemination of implementation-oriented knowledge among researchers and practitioners in computer science, software engineering, and related fields. The quantum programming paradigm differs fundamentally from classical programming models and often relies on physical and algebraic notations that may pose barriers to traditionally trained computer scientists. This series of articles provides a self-contained and concise introduction to quantum computing and its core algorithms, with a strong emphasis on practical implementation. Given that real quantum processors—such as those accessible via the IBM quantum ecosystem—are now available as cloud services, experimental validation can be conducted both on simulators and on actual hardware for small-scale inputs. While other platforms such as Rigetti and IonQ also offer cloud-based quantum computing services, this review focuses exclusively on the IBM quantum computing ecosystem.