Register to attend this P4 Developer Days webinar, “QuIP: A P4 Quantum Internet Protocol Prototyping Framework”
Date: December 3rd 8:00am Pacific
Abstract
Quantum entanglement is so fundamentally different from a network packet that several quantum network stacks have been proposed; one of which has even been experimentally demonstrated. Several simulators have also been developed to make up for limited hardware availability, and which facilitate the design and evaluation of quantum network protocols. However, the lack of shared tooling and community-agreed node architectures has resulted in protocol implementations that are tightly coupled to their simulators. Besides limiting their reusability between different simulators, it also makes building upon prior results and simulations difficult. To address this problem, we have developed QuIP: a P4-based Quantum Internet Protocol prototyping framework for quantum network protocol design. QuIP is a framework for designing and implementing quantum network protocols in a platform-agnostic fashion. It achieves this by providing the means to flexibly, but rigorously, define device architectures against which quantum network protocols can be implemented in the network programming language
P416. QuIP also comes with the necessary tooling to enable their execution in existing quantum network simulators. We demonstrate its use by showcasing V1Quantum, a completely new device architecture, implementing a link- and network-layer protocol, and simulating it in the existing simulator NetSquid.
Speaker
Wojciech Kozlowski is the Quantum Communication Topic Lead at SURF. He completed his MSci in Theoretical Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge and his PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics at the University of Oxford. Since then, Wojciech has been involved with networks, both classical and quantum. After his PhD he joined Metaswitch in London where he worked as a software engineer developing (classical) control planes. In 2019, Wojciech moved to the Netherlands where he worked as a postdoc and later quantum network engineer at the TU Delft before joining SURF in 2024.