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\text{P}4_{16} . 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.

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QuIP：P4 量子互联网协议原型框架


量子纠缠与网络数据包有着本质上的不同，以至于人们提出了几种量子网络堆栈。其中之一甚至已经得到实验证明。还开发了几种模拟器来弥补有限的硬件可用性，并促进量子网络协议的设计和评估。然而，缺乏共享工具和社区认可的节点架构导致协议实现与其模拟器紧密耦合。除了限制它们在不同模拟器之间的可重用性之外，它还使得基于先前结果和模拟的构建变得困难。为了解决这个问题，我们开发了 QuIP：一种基于 P4 的量子互联网协议原型框架，用于量子网络协议设计。 QuIP 是一个以平台无关的方式设计和实现量子网络协议的框架。它通过提供灵活而严格地定义设备架构的方法来实现这一目标，可以根据该设备架构在网络编程语言 P416\text{P}4_{16} 中实现量子网络协议。 QuIP 还配备了必要的工具，使其能够在现有的量子网络模拟器中执行。我们通过展示 V1Quantum（一种全新的设备架构）、实现链路层和网络层协议并在现有模拟器 NetSquid 中对其进行模拟来演示其用途。