Abstract
We propose a protocol to transmit three quantum states crossly in a butterfly network with prior entanglement, in the form of GHZ states, between three senders. The proposed protocol requires only one qubit transmission or two classical bits transmission in each channel of the network. We generalize this protocol to higher number of qubits with multiqubit GHZ states towards quantum network operability using network coding with multiqubit GHZ states on higher-order butterfly networks.