The Quantum Internet: Enhancing Classical Internet Services one Qubit at a Time

TL;DR

This paper explores the bidirectional relationship between classical and quantum internet, emphasizing how the Quantum Internet can support and improve classical internet services, which is crucial for designing future protocols.

Contribution

It highlights the complex, bidirectional interplay between classical and Quantum Internet, revealing the potential of Quantum Internet to enhance classical network functionalities.

Findings

Quantum Internet supports classical services

Interplay between classical and quantum is bidirectional

Quantum Internet can enhance classical network performance

Abstract

Nowadays, the classical Internet has mainly envisioned as the underlying communication infrastructure of the Quantum Internet, aimed at providing services such as signaling and coordination messages. However, the interplay between classical and Quantum Internet is complex and its understanding is pivotal for an effective design of the Quantum Internet protocol stack. The aim of the paper is to shed the light on this interplay, by highlighting that such an interplay is indeed bidirectional rather than unidirectional. And the Quantum Internet exhibits the potential of supporting and even enhancing classical Internet functionalities.