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demands of the computational task. puting power of the quantum computer. fidelity of the Bell pairs.
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Cost of on-demand QC Probability of the scenario ( 1) Cost of on-demand QC
Fig.6:Costbreakdownunderdifferenton-Fig. 7: Cost breakdown under differentFig. 8: Cost comparison among the pro-
demand QC costs. probabilities. posed, EVF, and random models.
pairs for the shared entangled qubits to be 5000, 1000, and computationaltasksequals11,on-demandquantumcom-
450,respectively,basedon[25].AllBellpairsamongquantum puters must be deployed to compute the computational
computers have identical costs and qubit capacities, i.e., 257 task, as it exceeds the computing power of the currently
qubits.Thecostandcomputingpowerofon-demandquantum deployed quantum computers.
computers are 25000 and 127, respectively. In the stochastic ii) Wevarythecomputingpower(i.e.,thenumberofqubits)
model, we consider two scenarios, i.e., |Ω| = 2. The first of quantum computers. For ease of presentation, all
scenario is ω in which the demand of the computational task quantum computers are identical. The cost structure, i.e.,
1
is 10, the computing power of the quantum computers is 127 the first-stage, second-stage, and total deployment costs,
qubits, and the fidelity of the Bell pairs is 1 (i.e., the best is shown in Figure 4. As the computing power increases,
performance). The second scenario is ω in which there is weseethattotaldeploymentcostsarefalling.Toachieve
2
nodemandforthecomputationaltask,allquantumcomputers thelowesttotalcost,thereisatrade-offbetweenthefirst-
havenoavailablecomputingpower,andthefidelityoftheBell stagecosttousethedeployedquantumcomputersandthe
pairsis0(i.e.,theworstperformance).Weassumethedefault second-stag cost to use on-demand quantum computers.
probability values with π(ω ) = 0.8 and π(ω )=0.2. iii) We vary the fidelity of the entangled qubits in DQC
1 2
We conduct experiments via GAMS script, which can be from 0 to 1. To simplify the evaluation, all the Bell
solved by MINLP solver [27]. Some parameters are varied in pairs are identical. The results are shown in Fig. 5.
different experiments. When the fidelity of the Bell pairs is less than 0.5, on-
demandquantumcomputerdeploymentsarenecessaryas
B. Impact of Demands, Computing Power, and Fidelity
the entanglement of the qubits cannot be achieved. The
In these experiments, we consider three important factors: computational tasks can be computed completely when
i) the demand of the computational task, ii) the computing the fidelity of the entangled qubits is equal to or greater
power of quantum computers, and iii) the fidelity of the Bell than 0.5.
pairs across quantum computers.
C. Impact of Cost of On-Demand Quantum Computers
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