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arXiv:2501.05380

Optimal Scheduling in a Quantum Switch

Sanidhay Bhambay, Thirupathaiah Vasantam, Neil Walton

Published Jan 9, 2025• 1 citation
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Abstract

With a growing number of quantum networks in operation, there is a pressing need for performance analysis of quantum switching technologies. A quantum switch establishes, distributes, and maintains entanglements across a network. In contrast to a classical switching fabric, a quantum switch is a two sided queueing network. The switch generates Link Level Entanglements (LLEs), which are then fused to process the networks entanglement requests. Our proof techniques analyse a two time scale separation phenomenon at the fluid scale for a general switch topology. This allows us to demonstrate that the optimal fluid dynamics are given by a scheduling algorithm that solves a certain average reward Markov Decision Process.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2501.05380

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With a growing number of quantum networks in operation, there is a pressing need for performance analysis of quantum switching technologies. A quantum switch establishes, distributes, and maintains entanglements across a network. In contrast to a classical switching fabric, a quantum switch is a two-sided queueing network. The switch generates Link-Level Entanglements (LLEs) across links that connect users to the switch, which are then fused to process the network's entanglement requests. First, we characterize the capacity region that is defined as the set of entanglement request rates for which there exists a scheduling policy stabilizing the system. We then show that a sequence of Max-Weight policies that we propose achieve throughput optimality in the asymptotic sense. Our proof techniques analyse a two-time scale separation phenomenon at the fluid scale for a general switch topology. This allows us to demonstrate that the optimal fluid dynamics are given by a scheduling algorithm that solves a certain average reward Markov Decision Process.
With a growing number of quantum networks in operation, there is a pressing need for performance analysis of quantum switching technologies. A quantum switch establishes, distributes, and maintains entanglements across a network. In contrast to a classical switching fabric, a quantum switch is a two-sided queueing network. The switch generates Link-Level Entanglements (LLEs) across links that connect users to the switch, which are then fused to process the network's entanglement requests. First, we characterize the capacity region that is defined as the set of entanglement request rates for which there exists a scheduling policy stabilizing the system. We then show that a sequence of Max-Weight policies that we propose achieve throughput optimality in the asymptotic sense. Our proof techniques analyse a two-time scale separation phenomenon at the fluid scale for a general switch topology. This allows us to demonstrate that the optimal fluid dynamics are given by a scheduling algorithm that solves a certain average reward Markov Decision Process.
We study a quantum network that distributes entangled quantum states to multiple sets of users that are connected to the network. Each user is connected to a switch of the network via a link. All the links of the network generate bipartite Bell-state entangled states in each time-slot with certain probabilities, and each end node stores one qubit of the entanglement generated by the link. To create shared entanglements for a set of users, measurement operations are performed on qubits of link-level entanglements on a set of related links, and these operations are probabilistic in nature and are successful with certain probabilities. Requests arrive to the system seeking shared entanglements for different sets of users. Each request is for the creation of shared entanglements for a fixed set of users using link-level entanglements on a fixed set of links. Requests are processed according to First-Come-First-Served service discipline and unserved requests are stored in buffers. Once a request is selected for service, measurement operations are performed on qubits of link-level entanglements on related links to create a shared entanglement. For given set of request arrival rates and link-level entanglement generation rates, we obtain necessary conditions for the stability of queues of requests. In each time-slot, the scheduler has to schedule entanglement swapping operations for different sets of users to stabilize the network. Next, we propose a Max-Weight scheduling policy and show that this policy stabilizes the network for all feasible arrival rates. We also provide numerical results to support our analysis. The analysis of a single quantum switch that creates multipartite entanglements for different sets of users is a special case of our work.
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In Distributed Quantum Computing (DQC), reliable entanglement distribution across a network of quantum computers is crucial. During the quantum program compilation process, the timing and locations of required entanglement resources can be determined. Leveraging this information, we use the properties of quantum network hardware-specifically, the entanglement generation and quantum switch operation rates-to optimize quantum job execution schedules. This work presents a system that, given a set of quantum programs, extracts an Entaglement Demand Schedule (EDS) and generates an execution plan, including resource allocation tables and switch control instructions. We outline the system architecture and benchmark its performance using collections of randomized quantum programs, and describe further steps to enhance our system.
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