Towards Quantum Network Performance Metrics: Challenges and Demonstration
Standardized metrics are critical for scaling quantum networks, enabling fault detection, adaptive control, and benchmarking. This framework bridges the gap between theoretical performance and real-world deployment, though observability gains must be balanced against operational overhead.
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2607.05642 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 6 Jul 2026] Title:Towards Quantum Network Performance Metrics: Challenges and Demonstration Authors:Mohamed Shaban, Mariam Kiran, Muhammad Ismail View a PDF of the paper titled Towards Quantum Network Performance Metrics: Challenges and Demonstration, by Mohamed Shaban and 2 other authors View PDF Abstract:As quantum networks move toward practical deployment, standardized performance monitoring becomes essential. This article proposes a structured monitoring framework for quantum networks with performance metrics, including quality (e.g., entanglement fidelity, QBER, loss, dark count rate), throughput and latency (e.g., entanglement rate, waiting time), timing (e.g., coincidence window, production and coincidence jitter), and exogenous factors (e.g., temperature, humidity, vibrations). These measurements enable real-time observability, benchmarking, and control, supporting use cases such as fault diagnosis, adaptive timing, and entanglement routing. Additionally, we implement a non-invasive prototype environmental monitoring system integrated with the quantum network infrastructure at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, demonstrating practical feasibility of live data collection and alert generation. Furthermore, we discuss the challenges of real-time monitoring and the trade-offs between observability and system performance. This work establishes a foundation for developing advanced quantum network monitoring systems and lays the groundwork for future autonomous control and quantum software-defined networking. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) Cite as: arXiv:2607.05642 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2607.05642v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.05642 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Mohamed Shaban [view email] [v1] Mon, 6 Jul 2026 21:10:08 UTC (13,657 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Towards Quantum Network Performance Metrics: Challenges and Demonstration, by Mohamed Shaban and 2 other authorsView PDF 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?)