EXPERIMENT 002 / SATELLITE NETWORK PLANNING
LuniQ SatMesh
Changing links. Smarter route choices.
Quantum-Assisted Satellite Network Intelligence. Choose a route between two ground endpoints at two snapshots, then inspect quantum and classical planning side by side.
Research prototype · Synthetic snapshots, not orbital simulation · No satellite connection or instant communication · No quantum advantage claimed
01 / EXPLORE THE NETWORK
Four satellites. Two ground endpoints.
━ Available━ Selected QAOA route┄ Unavailable
Run QAOA to highlight an observed feasible route.
| Route | One-way latency | Risk score | Available |
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What these snapshots mean
t0 and t1 are two synthetic planning snapshots with fixed candidate paths, not orbit propagation or continuous connectivity. Satellite positions here are diagram layout only. Each route must have every hop available at its snapshot. P0 and P1 share the A–S1 uplink.
P0: A → S1 → S2 → B. P1: A → S1 → S3 → B. P2: A → S4 → B. The S1–S3 link is unavailable at t1 even in the normal scenario.
02 / PLAN AND MEASURE
Test a routing scenario
Ready. No result has been generated.
Runs on your device in a local worker. No upload, account, paid quantum API, commercial AI or saved inputs. Six decision qubits encode route choices, not satellites.
03 / VERIFY THE SCHEDULE
Two snapshots. One inspectable plan.
QAOA · best feasible observed sample
Classical · exact feasible optimum
Planning objective and physical limits
Planning cost = sum of assumed one-way latencies + 10 × sum of risk scores + 4 × route-ID changes. Penalties have ms-equivalent weights; planning cost is not physical latency or ping. Risk scores are illustrative preferences, not measured outage probabilities.
Exactly one available route must be selected in each snapshot. The QUBO adds 100 for each unavailable selected route and 100(Σy − 1)² per snapshot. The fixed toy costs satisfy this penalty bound. A route change is not a complete physical handover model.
Ordinary signals still obey the speed of light. This lab has no orbital dynamics, coverage, radio/laser link budget, weather, capacity or queue model. No operational or quantum speedup claim.
Circuit, Hamiltonian and provenance
Measured outcomes, including constraint violations
| Bits | Shots | Constraints | Planning cost | Energy |
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Quantum planning, ordinary links
H initialization, Ising RZ/RZZ phase gates, RX mixers, classical angle search and seeded Born-rule measurement. Ideal classical simulation, not quantum satellite hardware.
Failures stay visible
Infeasible shots are counted. Disconnected scenarios produce no recommendation. The exact baseline is never substituted for a QAOA result.
Built on research
QAOA foundations ↗
Related resilient-routing research ↗. This direction has prior work; no novelty claim.