  To realize the Quantum Internet, quantum communications require pre-shared
entanglement among quantum nodes. However, both the generation and the
distribution of the maximally-entangled quantum states are inherently
contaminated by quantum decoherence. Conventionally, the quantum decoherence is
mitigated by performing the consecutive steps of quantum entanglement
distillation followed by quantum teleportation. However, this conventional
approach imposes a long delay. To circumvent this impediment, we propose a
novel quantum communication scheme relying on realistic noisy pre-shared
entanglement, which eliminates the sequential steps imposing delay in the
standard approach. More precisely, our proposed scheme can be viewed as a
direct quantum communication scheme capable of improving the quantum bit error
ratio (QBER) of the logical qubits despite relying on realistic noisy
pre-shared entanglement. Our performance analysis shows that the proposed
scheme offers competitive QBER, yield, and goodput compared to the existing
state-of-the-art quantum communication schemes, despite requiring fewer quantum
gates.
