Entanglement-Based Competition Resolution in Distributed Systems

Abstract

Accessing scarce resources in distributed systems where entities are not centrally coordinated, whether roebucks are fighting for a doe or WiFi users are competing for a common radio channel, is associated with moderate efficiency and proves to be a challenging problem. In this study, we present our hypothesis on shared entanglement and how such a process can improve resource access in macroscopically distributed systems. Furthermore, the required entangled states can be established in a distributed manner.

Keywords

• Distributed systems
• medium access control (MAC)
• quantum computing
• quantum entanglement
• slotted-ALOHA
• unitary transformation