Fig. 3: Illustration of performance for multi-round entanglement purification.
From: Purification scheduling control for throughput maximization in quantum networks

It can be seen that regardless of the initial fidelity, the fidelity enhancement efficiency, i.e., the ratio of fidelity improvement to resource consumption, is the highest one for the one-round purification scheme, i.e., the fidelity improvement from the one-round purification scheme is the largest for the same resource consumption.