2nd Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (QuNet)
Monday, September 8th | Half-day Workshop (Morning)
Location
The workshop will take place at Room Centro.
Program
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08:00 — 08:45 | Registration |
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08:45 — 10:30 | Section 1 Short talks of 15 min. each, including questions (more time for questions during the coffee break) 08:45 - 09:00 Modeling and Simulation of Trapped-ion Quantum Repeaters and Networks C. Jain, C. Chan, E. Kissel, W. Wu, I. Monga 09:00 - 09:15 Towards Blind Quantum Machine Learning in Entanglement Networks D. de Abreu, A. Abelém 09:15 - 09:30 Entanglement improves coordination in distributed systems F. Ferreira da Silva, S. Wehner 09:30 - 09:45 Linear Programming Approach for Demonstrating Network Nonlocality for Arbitrary Networks S. Hayes-Shuptar, D. Bhatti, D. Elkouss 09:45 - 10:00 Modeling and Simulation of All-photonic Quantum Repeaters and Networks C. Chan, C. Jain, E. Kissel, W. Wu, E. Barnes, S. Economou, I. Monga 10:00 - 10:15 An extensible control plane software architecture for quantum networking research S. Yu, L. Zhang, E. Kissel, W. Wu, I. Monga 10:15 - 10:30 Quantum-Enabled Secure Computation Medical Service D. Matos, J. Romero, L. Ortiz, V. Martin, A. Pinto |
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10:30 — 11:00 | Morning coffee break |
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11:00 — 11:45 | Section 2 Invited talk 11:00 - 11:45 Advanced Quantum Networking: resources and applications Eleni Diamanti |
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11:45 — 12:30 | Section 3 Lightning talks 6 min. each, including questions Arqon Suite of Quantum Network Control Applications S. Gauthier, T. Beauchamp, S. Wehner Simulation-based Analysis of Distributed Quantum Computing with Remote Gates B. Baier, W. Kellerer Towards a common framework for quantum information networking T. Beauchamp, A. Sebastián-Lombraña, S. Gauthier, J. Romero, V. Martin, S. Wehner, L. Ortiz Quantum Oblivious Transfer through Coherent-One-Way Quantum-Key-Distribution J. Faba, J. Romero, L. Ortiz, V. Martin A Vision for Integrated Quantum-Classical Network Operations K. Bohan, B. Bose, S. Corbato, T. Nguyen, I. Monga, B. Smith, W. Wu, R. Durairajan Reinforcement Learning for Entanglement Distribution in Quantum Networks A. Casado, Á. Olivas, J. Faba, L. Robledo, V. Martin, L. Ortiz Towards a wider optimisation of quantum communication infrastructure deployments A. Sebastian-Lombraña, Q. Zhang, L. Ortiz, V. Martin |
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12:45 — 14:00 | Lunch Break |
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15:45 — 16:15 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
Call for Papers
Quantum networks enable the transmission of quantum bits (qubits) to establish non-classical correlations between connected nodes, allowing for applications such as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), secure multiparty computation, high-precision metrology or the connection of quantum processors. While significant progress has been made, key technological challenges remain, including qubit transmission losses, the absence of quantum repeaters, and the integration of quantum and classical communication over shared infrastructure.
Early experimental networks, such as those in Boston, Vienna, and Tokyo, demonstrated the feasibility of metropolitan-scale quantum communication. These efforts have evolved into next-generation quantum networks, including China’s long-range backbone or the Madrid network, focused on the integration with classical transport networks, an example of EuroQCI’s national initiatives. While QKD remains the primary application, these infrastructures are expected to enable distributed quantum computing and quantum cloud architectures in the future.
Quantum networks have attracted increasing attention among the computer networking community. QuNet provides a valuable opportunity for other SIGCOMM-related researchers to access the recent advances of quantum network research and develop their interests in this field.
Topics of Interest
The workshop is soliciting paper submissions with novel research contributions to the field of quantum networks and distributed quantum computing. Both theoretical and experimental studies are equally welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Quantum network architectures
- Physical layer of quantum networks
- Link layer of quantum networks
- Network layer of quantum networks
- Applications of quantum networks
- Distributed quantum computing
- Quantum cloud
- Measurement of quantum networks
- Verification of quantum networks
- QoS of quantum networks
- Simulation of quantum networks
- Modeling of quantum networks
- Quantum networks deployments, demonstrators and PoCs
Submission Instructions
Research papers of up to 6 pages, including all figures, tables and appendices. Submissions must be original, unpublished work, that have not been concurrently submitted to other venues. Workshop papers will appear as a part of the official proceedings and are thus considered published work.
Extended abstracts, which are 2 pages in length (excluded references) submitted in the same format as the workshop papers. We ‘re particularly interested in early-stage findings, position papers and works that are still in progress. This segment is designed for authors to showcase their preliminary or emerging ideas in a concise, impactful manner, and get early-stage feedback at the workshop.
Both types of papers can use as many additional pages as necessary for citations and should be written using the two-column 10pt ACM SIGCOMM format. It is the author's responsibility to produce readable submissions that comply with the formatting constraints. Violating the formatting requirements will result in a submission being returned without being reviewed.
All submissions are double-blind. The program committee will review papers to determine relevance to the workshop, quality, and on the likelihood that it will elicit discussion among the attendees. At least one author from each accepted submission must attend the workshop to present and discuss their work.
Please submit your paper via https://qunet25.hotcrp.com/
If you have any questions or problems with your submission, please get in touch with Vicente Martin (vicente.martin@upm.es), Nengkun Yu (nengkun.yu@cs.stonybrook.edu) or Chen Qian (cqian12@ucsc.edu)
Important Dates
| Submission deadline | May 23rd, 2025 (Updated) |
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| Acceptance notification | June 27th, 2025 (Updated) |
| Camera-ready deadline | July 23rd, 2025 (Updated) |
| Workshop date | September 8th, 2025 |
Organizers
| General Co-Chairs | Institution |
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| Vicente Martin | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Nengkun Yu | Stony Brook University |
| Steering Committee Co-Chairs | Institution |
| Chen Qian | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Don Towsley | University of Massachusetts |
| Yuanyuan Yang | Stony Brook University |
| Technical Program Committee | Institution |
| Robert Rand | University of Chicago |
| Eddy Zhang | Rutgers University |
| Wenji Wu | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Aruna Balasubramanian | Stony Brook University |
| Boulat Bash | University of Arizona |
| Bing Wang | University of Connecticut (UConn) |
| Shouqian Shi | Nanjing University |
| Yuan Liu | North Carolina State University (NCSU) |
| Gabriella Carini | Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) |
| Julien Laurat | Université Sorbonne, Paris |
| Valerio Pruneri | ICFO, Barcelona |
| David Elkouss | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) |
| Armando Pinto | University of Aveiro |
| Thomas Schiavon | LIP6, Université Sorbonne |
| Scarlett Gauthier | TU Delft |
| Thomas Beauchamp | TU Delft |
| Soeren Wengerowsky | ICFO, Barcelona |
| Laura Ortíz | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Javier Faba | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Juan Pedro Brito | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Andres Agustí | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Nuno Silva | University of Aveiro |
| Alberto Sebastian-Lombraña | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Shengwang Du | Purdue University |
| Reza Nejabati | CISCO |
| Yiming Zeng | Binghamton University |
