Differentiated service entanglement routing for quantum networks

Abstract The entanglement distribution networks with various topologies are mainly implemented by active wavelength multiplexing routing strategies, which directly transmit entangled photons between quantum network nodes. However, designing an entanglement routing scheme, which achieves the maximized network connections and the optimal overall network efficiency simultaneously, remains a huge challenge for quantum networks. In this article, we propose a differentiated service entanglement routing (DSER) scheme, which firstly finds out the lowest loss paths and supported wavelength channels with the tensor-based path searching algorithm, and then allocates the paired channels with the differentiated routing strategies. The evaluation results show that the proposed DSER scheme can be performed for constructing various large scale quantum networks.