A Measurement Plane for Quantum Networking

Quantum Physics arXiv:2607.13291 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 14 Jul 2026] Title:A Measurement Plane for Quantum Networking Authors:Abderrahim Amlou, Amar Abane, Anouar Rahmouni, Mheni Merzouki, Abdella Battou, Ahmed Lbath, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Oliver Slattery, Thomas Gerrits View a PDF of the paper titled A Measurement Plane for Quantum Networking, by Abderrahim Amlou and 8 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Quantum networking testbeds lack a distinct plane for coordinating distributed measurements and collecting experimental data across heterogeneous devices. To address this gap, we present the Measurement Plane, a dedicated plane that complements the data, control, and management planes rather than replacing or extending their pipelines. The contribution is presented as a distributed framework that organizes measurement functions into four layers: application, experiment coordination, capability, and resource agents. Our design separates user workflows from device-specific control. We implemented the framework as containerized microservices connected through publish--subscribe messaging, and validated it on a two-node quantum networking setup connected by an optical network. The framework successfully coordinated remote nodes to execute coincidence measurement and polarization entanglement distribution experiments with visibility interference of up to 98 percent. This evaluation demonstrated the effectiveness of the framework for supporting complex, distributed quantum experiments, enabling online measurement and feedback, and significantly reducing manual configuration and execution effort. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) Cite as: arXiv:2607.13291 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2607.13291v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.13291 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Abderrahim Amlou [view email] [v1] Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:58:25 UTC (3,738 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled A Measurement Plane for Quantum Networking, by Abderrahim Amlou and 8 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-07 Change to browse by: cs cs.NI References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)