QCNC 2026
International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC 2026)
April 6-8, 2026 · Kobe, Japan
IEEE
IEEE Communications Society

List of Accepted Papers

Main Conference Papers
  1. Consensus Protocols for Entanglement-Aware Scheduling in Distributed Quantum Neural Networks
    Kuan-Cheng Chen, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Mahdi Chehimi, Felix Burt and Kin Leung

  2. Scalable Quantum Device Authentication Using Hardware-Efficient Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions
    Franco Cirillo and Christian Esposito

  3. Multipartite Quantum Cryptography
    Nicolas Laurent-Puig, Matilde Baroni, Laura dos Santos Martins, Santiago Scheiner, Luis Bugalho, Majid Hassani, Federico Centrone, Sean Moore, Damian Markham and Eleni Diamanti

  4. Extending Repeater Spacing in All-Photonic Quantum Repeaters
    Ryosuke Shiina, Kenneth Goodenough and Filip Rozpedek

  5. Distributed Quantum Computing with Fan-Out Operations and Qudits: the Case of Distributed Global Gates
    Seng Loke

  6. Formal Verification of Scalable Remote CNOT Protocol Architectures in Linear Quantum Repeater Networks Using Mathematical Induction
    Yi Liu, Canh Minh Do and Tsubasa Takagi

  7. Interoperable Multi-Vendor, Multi-Domain, Multi-Layer, Multi-Service Quantum Key Distribution Network Field-Trial
    Konstantinos Tsimvrakidis, Alkinoos Papageorgopoulos, Stephan Laschet, Florian Kutschera, Paul James, Luca Torresetti, Sebastian Ramacher, Nikolas Makris, Persefoni Konteli, Jaime S. Buruaga, Rafael J. Vicente, Yorlandy Lobaina, Juan Pedro Brito, Petros Papapetropoulos, Ilias Papastamatiou, Hannes Hubel, Vicente Martin and George T. Kanellos

  8. Entanglement Throughput Measurements and Capacity Estimates for Aerial-Inground Fiber
    Nageswara Rao, Muneer Alshowkan, Aneesh Ramaswamy, Joseph Chapman, Nicholas Peters, Hsuan-Hao Lu, Joe Lukens and Guha Saikat

  9. Routing Entanglement in Complex Quantum Networks Using GHZ States
    Nageswara Rao, Muneer Alshowkan, Aneesh Ramaswamy, Joseph Chapman, Xinan Chen, Caitao Zhan, Joaquin Chung and Jeffrey Larson

  10. Online Optimal Probe Allocation for Quantum Network Tomography
    Nageswara Rao, Muneer Alshowkan, Aneesh Ramaswamy, Joseph Chapman, Xuchuang Wang, Yu-Zhen Janice Chen, Matheus Guedes de Andrade, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, John C.S. Lui, Ting He and Don Towsley

  11. Adaptive Coding for Quantum Communications in Quantum Internet
    Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Andrea Talarico and Marco Chiani

  12. Time-Switching Quantum Relay-Assisted Free-Space Optical Communication
    Nizar Khalfet and Ioannis Krikidis

  13. Rate-Fidelity Tradeoffs in All-Photonic and Memory-Equipped Quantum Switches
    Panagiotis Promponas, Leonardo Bacciottini, Paul A. Polakos, Gayane Vardoyan, Donald Towsley and Leandros Tassiulas

  14. Temporal Framework for Causality-Preserving Scheduling of Measurements in Quantum Networks
    Jakob Kaltoft Søndergaard, René Bødker Christensen and Petar Popovski

  15. Quantum Repeater Architectures in the Hollow-Core Fibre Era: Performance and Design Implications
    Sima Bahrani, Vaibhav Jain, Rui Wang and Dimitra Simeonidou

  16. Coordinating Time-Critical Quantum Operations with a Programmable Control Plane
    Ziyan Zhang and Paola Grosso

  17. Quantum MIMO Diversity Framework Using Approximate Cloning and Probabilistic Purification
    Shehbaz Tariq, Junaid Ur Rehman and Symeon Chatzinotas

  18. Quantum Advantage Without Real-Time Classical Communication in Networks with Tripartite Entangled Sources
    Leonardo Oleynik, Seid Koudia and Symeon Chatzinotas

  19. QFiLa: Entanglement-Assured Link Metric Design for Long-Distance Quantum Networks
    Thu Trang Nguyen, Yuto Lim and Ruidong Li

  20. On Utility-optimal Entanglement Routing in Quantum Networks
    Sounak Kar and Arpan Mukhopadhyay

  21. Topology-Hiding Connectivity-Assurance for QKD Inter-Networking
    Margherita Cozzolino, Stephan Krenn and Thomas Lorünser

  22. Nonlocality Distillation Can Outperform Entanglement Distillation
    Razeen Ud Din, Peter Høyer and Jibran Rashid

  23. Harnessing Entanglement in Quantum Federated Learning Under Efficiency Constraints
    Shiva Raj Pokhrel

  24. Local Unitary Preprocessing for Private Quantum Remote Sensing
    Ufuk Keskin, Stefano Marano and Moe Z. Win

  25. Fidelity-Age–Aware Scheduling in Quantum Repeater Networks
    Ozgur Ercetin and Zafer Gedik

  26. BiBiEQ: Bivariate Bicycle Codes on Erasure Qubits
    Ameya S. Bhave, Navnil Choudhury, Andrew Nemec and Kanad Basu

  27. LAUREL: Logic Dependency-Aware Qubit Routing via Reinforcement Learning
    Ming-Bang Fan, Cheng-Yun Hsieh, Meng-Chen Wu, Chun-Yi Lee and James Chien-Mo Li

  28. Deadline-Aware Scheduling of Distributed Quantum Circuits in Near-Term Quantum Cloud
    Nour Dehaini, Christia Chahoud and Mahdi Chehimi

  29. QuMod: Parallel Quantum Job Scheduling on Modular QPUs using Circuit Cutting
    Vinooth Rao Kulkarni, Aaron Orenstein, Xinpeng Li, Shuai Xu, Daniel Blankenberg and Vipin Chaudhary

  30. QFlowNet: Fast, Diverse, and Efficient Unitary Synthesis with Generative Flow Networks
    Inhoe Koo, Hyunho Cha and Jungwoo Lee

  31. A Quantum SMT Solver for Bit-Vector Theory
    Shang-Wei Lin, Si-Han Chen, Lei-Han Yao, Yu-Chung Chen and Yean-Ru Chen

  32. Multi-Shot Quantum Sensing for RF Signal Detection with MIMO Rydberg-Atom Receivers
    Saman Atapattu, Harini Hapuarachchi and Nathan Ross

  33. Quantum Annealing for Staff Scheduling in Educational Environments
    Alessia Ciacco, Francesca Guerriero and Eneko Osaba

  34. Quantum Dominating Set Problem: An Unbalanced Penalization Analysis
    Freddy Alejandro Chaurra-Gutierrez, Claudia Feregrino-Uribe and Guohua Sun

  35. Optimising Spectral Purity and Brightness with Pump Pulse Shaping
    Hugh Barrett, Zulekha Samiullah, Ben Burridge, Jorge Barreto and Imad Faruque

  36. Designing quantum technologies with a quantum computer
    Juan Javier Naranjo, Thi Ha Kyaw, Jack Baker, Kevin Ferreira and Gaurav Saxena

  37. QKAN-LSTM: Quantum-inspired Kolmogorov-Arnold Long Short-term Memory
    Yu-Chao Hsu, Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Chun-Hua Lin, Kuo-Chung Peng, Nan-Yow Chen, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, En-Jui Kuo and Hsi-Sheng Goan

  38. Learning Gaussian Processes with Randomized Quantum Local Kernels
    Yu-Chao Hsu, Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Chun-Hua Lin, Kuo-Chung Peng, Nan-Yow Chen, Abdallah Aaraba, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Jean-Frédéric Laprade, Ola Ahmad and Shengrui Wang

  39. Combining continuous and discrete variables for quantum information processing
    Luca Bianchi, Carlo Marconi and Davide Bacco

  40. A Distributed Quantum Neural Network for Network Anomaly Detection
    Moe Hdaib, Sutharshan Rajasegarar and Seng Loke

  41. Quantum Circuits for CRISPR-Guided Gene Regulatory Network Inference
    Rubayat Khan, Mazhar Razon, Nuruzzaman Sojib and Don Roosan

  42. Tunneling based atom interferometry using Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential
    S Benel, Sandra Babu, Simon Haine and Manju Perumbil

  43. HarmQ: Harmonic Backdoor Attacks Against Quantum Neural Networks
    Junrui Zhang, Zemin Chen, Chunsheng Xin, Hongyi Wu and Rui Ning

  44. Unbounded length minimal synchronizing words for quantum channels over qutrits
    Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen and Swarnalakshmi Lakshmanan

  45. Transversal Toffoli-gate in Hybrid-code System
    Dawei Jiao, Mahdi Bayanifar, Alexei Ashikhmin and Olav Tirkkonen

  46. Hybrid Quantum Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection
    Moe Hdaib, Sutharshan Rajasegarar and Lei Pan

  47. Learning to Correct Errors in Quantum Circuits via Transformer-Predicted PQCs
    Ashutosh Tiwari, Zian Wang and Himanshu Gupta

  48. Hybrid Quantum-AI Model for Robust Phishing Detection in Next-Generation Consumer Electronics
    Akshat Gaurav, Varsha Arya, Brij B. Gupta and Kwok Tai Chui

  49. HQCPA: A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Parallel Architecture for Quantum Reinforcement Learning
    Xinliang Wei, Kejiang Ye, Cheng-Zhong Xu and Yu Wang

  50. Solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz and Column Generation
    Wei-Hao Huang, Hiromichi Matsuyama and Yu Yamashiro

  51. DyLoC: A Dual-Layer Architecture for Secure and Trainable Quantum Machine Learning Under Polynomial-DLA constraint
    Chenyi Zhang, Tao Shang, Chao Guo and Ruohan He

  52. Scaling a Quantum Network to Real-World Applications: MadQCI and its ecosystem
    Alberto Sebastián-Lombraña, David Rincón, Laura Ortiz, Juan Pedro Brito Mendez, Jaime Sáez de Buruaga, Juan Morales, Antonio Melgar, Javier Faba, Juan José Romero, Adrián Sacks Nogal, Luis Cortés de María, Valeria Gil Rubio, Marta Irene García Cid, Raúl Díaz Bonete, Sofía Ángel Carlón, Alejandro Guzmán Huerta, Carlos Castro Sánchez, Alejandro Fernández Ibáñez, José Luis Rosales Bejarano, Rubén B. Méndez, Rafael J. Vicente, Luis Mengual, Julio Setien, Carmen Escribano, Pedro Jesús Salas, José Manuel Rivas Moscoso, Antonio Pastor, Diego López, Rafael Cantó Palancar, Vicente Martin-Ayuso, Jesús Folgueira and César Sánchez

  53. Bridging the Gap: Systematic IT Security Assessment and Hardening of Commercial QKD Systems
    David Koch, Sebastian Deuerling, Amélie Dieterich and Fabian Farina

  54. A Stochastic Model for Key Supply and Session Demand in Quantum Key Distribution Systems
    Hamid Taramit, Leduin José Cuenca Macas, Juan P. Brito and Vicente Martin

  55. Evaluating DV/CV-QKD Architectures for SAFE Long-Term Secure Storage: A Risk Model and ILP-Based Cost Optimization Approach
    Alireza Tasdighi and Romain Alléaume

  56. Column Generation for the Optimization of Switching in Repeaterless Quantum Networks
    Álvaro Troyano Olivas, Andrés Agustí Casado, Hans H. Brunner, Fred Fung, Momtchil Peev, Laura Ortiz and Vicente Martin

  57. Combined Quantum and Post-Quantum Security Performance Under Finite Keys
    Aman Gupta, Ravi Singh Adhikari, Anju Rani, Xiaoyu Ai and Robert Malaney

  58. Statistical Analysis of an Entanglement-Based Quantum Key Distribution Protocol and Validation of Its Anti-tampering Measures Under Detector Efficiency Attacks
    David Koch, Fabian Farina, Hedwig Körfgen, Hanns Zimmermann, Nils Gentschen Felde and Arno Wacker

  59. Cross talk in multiplexed continuous-variable quantum key distribution
    Olena Kovalenko and Vladyslav Usenko

  60. End-to-End Adaptive Quantum-Safe Key Management in Distributed Multi-Technology 5G Architectures
    Ane Sanz, Eire Salegi, Asier Atutxa, Gaizka González, Jasone Astorga and Eduardo Jacob

  61. Efficient quantum generic key-recovery attack on Feistel ciphers
    Kun Zhang, Tao Shang and Yuanjing Zhang

  62. Implementation of a Hybrid QKD/PQC Network and Applications
    Christoph Döberl, Wolfgang Eibner, Hannes Hübel, Manuela Kos, Florian Kutschera, Stephan Laschet, Andreas Neuhold, Sebastian Ramacher, Philipp Stanzer and Werner Strasser

  63. Simulation of a Heterogeneous Quantum Network
    Hayden Miller, Caitao Zhan, Michael Bishof, Xu Han, Prem Kumar, Joaquin Chung and Rajkumar Kettimuthu

  64. Quantum-Assisted Packet Synchronization for 5G/6G: Architecture, Standards Alignment, and Positioning Gains
    Swaraj Shekhar Nande, Vignesh Raman, Ming Yin, Ju Hoon Kim, Riccardo Bassoli and Frank H. P. Fitzek

  65. Symbolic Quantum State Representation and its Simulation
    Simon Sekavčnik and Janis Nötzel

  66. MPS-JuliQAOA: User-friendly, Scalable MPS-based Simulation for Quantum Optimization
    Sean Feeney, Reuben Tate, John Golden and Stephan Eidenbenz

  67. Designing an Emulation Platform for Realistic Experimentation on Quantum Networks
    Blanca Lopez, Ivan Vidal, Francisco Valera and Diego Lopez

  68. Efficient and Practical Black-Box Verification of Quantum Metric Learning Algorithms
    Ahmed Shokry, Movahhed Sadeghi and Mahmut Kandemir

  69. Quantum Network Simulation and Emulation: A Roadmap for Quantum Internet Design
    Brian Doolittle

  70. SQUIRE - A Global Quantum Secure Communication Service for IoT
    Ming Yin, Marc Geitz, Ilijc Albanese, Taran Gnaust, Oliver Holschke, Buniechukwu Njoku, Riccardo Bassoli and Frank Fitzek

Short Papers
  1. Dimensioning of Quantum Memories for Distilled Quantum EPR Packets
    Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Andrea Talarico and Marco Chiani

  2. Lightweight Noise Diagnosis for Photonic Quantum Detectable Byzantine Agreement
    Kevin Bogner, Kuan-Cheng Chen, Aysajan Abidin and Kin K. Leung

  3. On the Specification and Analysis of Quantum Repeater Protocols
    Lorenzo La Corte, Anita Buckley, Pavel Chuprikov and Patrick Eugster

  4. Efficient Time-Aware Partitioning of Quantum Circuits for Distributed Quantum Computing
    Raymond P. H. Wu, Jinho Choi, Chathu Ranaweera, Ria Rushin Joseph, Sutharshan Rajasegarar and Seng Loke

  5. Enhancing Continuous-Variable Two-Mode Gate Teleportation via Photon Subtraction
    Mingjian He and Shouyin Liu

  6. Distributing Quantum Circuits Using Pre-Distributed Entanglement Pairs over Quantum Networks
    Yukun Yang, Ranjani G Sundaram and Himanshu Gupta

  7. Full-Mesh Quantum Key Distribution Network Based on Time-Shared Entanglement Distribution
    Yury Kurochkin, Alexei Ponasenko, Karen Sloyan, Jaideep Singh, Vadim Rodimin, Vlad Revici, Rodrigo Piera, Attila Pereszlenyi, Tahar Mehri and James Grieve

  8. Optimizing Orbital Parameters of Satellites for a Global Quantum Network
    Yury Kurochkin, Alexei Ponasenko, Karen Sloyan, Jaideep Singh, Vadim Rodimin, Athul Ashok, Owen DePoint, Jackson MacDonald, Albert Williams and Don Towsley

  9. Compression-Aware Entanglement Efficiency Rate via Multiple Hamming Weighted States
    Jan Ostergaard

  10. Performance Enhancement in Quantum Repeater Chains via Simultaneous Entanglement Swappings
    Javier Faba, Andrés Agustí, Luis Robledo and Vicente Martin-Ayuso

  11. A Cost-Effective Model for Secure Data Transmission Using QKD over WDM Networks
    Ange Njanda, Fernanda Giovanna, Anderson Tomkelski and Karcius Assis

  12. Turbo Equalization For Thermal States Based Wireless Quantum Optical Multipath Communications Using Polar Codes
    Peter Jung and Kushtrim Dini

  13. Joint Optimization of Routing and Purification to Meet Fidelity Targets in Quantum Networks
    Gongyu Ni, Lester Ho and Holger Claussen

  14. Online Scheduling and Distribution of Quantum Circuits over Quantum Networks
    Yukun Yang and Himanshu Gupta

  15. Quantum-Enhanced LSTM for Sequential Network Flow Analysis: A Hybrid Approach to DDoS Detection
    Adam Kadi, Hajar Moudoud, Lyes Khoukhi and Zakaria Abou El Houda

  16. On-Off Keyed Wireless Quantum Optical Communications Via Turbulent Channels With Decoherence
    Peter Jung and Kushtrim Dini

  17. Dependency-Aware Circuit Scheduling for Multi-Core Quantum Systems to Minimize Makespan
    Rajeswari Suance P S, Ruchika Gupta, Maurizio Palesi and John Jose

  18. A2G-QFL: Adaptive Aggregation with Two Gains in Quantum Federated learning
    Shanika Nanayakkara and Shiva Pokhrel

  19. A time/utility function for scheduling quantum applications
    Luca Marchese, Bethany Davies and Stephanie Wehner

  20. Addressing a device in a quantum network: A quantum approach including routing
    Alexander Pirker

  21. Topology-Dependent Enhancement of Entanglement Extraction in Repeater Graph States
    Poramat Chianvichai, Poramet Pathumsoot, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdusek, Rodney Van Meter and Sujin Suwanna

  22. Entanglement Fidelity and Preservation in Standard Quantum Channels
    Poramat Chianvichai, Poramet Pathumsoot, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Niccolo Zanieri and Marios Kountouris

  23. Hybrid Predictive Quantum Feedback: Extending Qubit Lifetimes Beyond the Wiseman-Milburn Limit
    Ali Abu-Nada, Aryan Iliat and Russell Ceballos

  24. Towards Real-World Solutions: QSVM with NSGA-II Feature Map Search for Imbalanced Classification
    Jay Patel, Yaqi Han, Erin Li and Jamal Kawach

  25. A Quantum Variational Approach to Prototypical Recurrent Unit
    Mahyar Sadeghi Garjan, Michel Barbeau and Tommaso Cesari

  26. Efficient Transpilation of OpenQASM 3.0 Dynamic Circuits to CUDA-Q: Performance and Expressiveness Advantages
    Vinooth Rao Kulkarni, Jaehyun Lee, Adam Hutchings, Anas Albahri, Jai Nana, Shuai Xu and Vipin Chaudhary

  27. Lackadaisical Quantum Walk Search on Dicyclic Cayley Graphs
    Rou Yan Ng, Yong Qing Tiong and Kai Lin Ong

  28. TNO-QA: Tensor-Network Optimized Quantum Attention
    Yaswitha Gujju, Romain Harang and Tetsuo Shibuya

  29. H-QDL: A Hybrid Quantum Deep Learning-driven Cyber Threat Recognition System for Industrial IoT Networks
    Govind Gupta, Arun Kumar Dey and Avnish Ramvinay Singh

  30. Low-Depth Construction of Grover Oracles from Fully Functional Quantum Circuits
    Jiaqi Gu and Behzad Abdolmaleki

  31. Meta-Learning for Quantum Optimization via Quantum Sequence Model
    Yu-Cheng Lin, Yu-Chao Hsu and Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

  32. A Quantum Computation Method for the Graph Fourier Transform of Graph Signal
    Chien-Cheng Tseng and Su-Ling Lee

  33. HQSU: Hybrid Quantum Selective Unlearning for Backdoor Mitigation in Federated Learning
    Asitha Kottahachchi Kankanamge Don, Ibrahim Khalil, Shehan Edirimannage, Wathsara Daluwatta, Charitha Elvitigala and Jer Shyuan Ng

  34. QuanNetDetect: A Quantum Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Encrypted TLS Malicious Traffic Detection
    Nirusan Hariharan and Guhanathan Poravi

  35. Resolving Bottlenecks in Quantum Machine Learning: Encoding Theory and Data Augmentation
    Mariia Baidachna, Isabel Pedraza and Sergei Gleyzer

  36. Security of a secret sharing protocol on the Qline
    Lucas Hanouz, Alex Bredariol Grilo and Anne Marin

  37. Experimental Validation of AUX scheme for Quantum Homomorphic Encryption on IBM Quantum Platforms
    Gia Dang, Jim Basilakis, Weisheng Si and Belal Alsinglawi

  38. Challenges and Hybrid Approaches for Satellite QKD Networks
    Angela Diaz-Bricio, Ivan Vidal and Francisco Valera

  39. Analysis of SDN Control Protocols in Industrial-Grade QKD Networks
    Ruben B. Mendez, Jesus Ballesta, Ramon Querol, Carmen Escribano, Luis Mengual, Juan Robles, Antonio Pastor, Rafael Cantó, Jesus Folgueira, Diego Lopez, Vicente Martín and Juan P. Brito

  40. PQC-Enhanced QKD Networks: A Layered Approach
    Paul Spooren, Andreas Neuhold, Sebastian Ramacher and Thomas Hühn

  41. FPGA Implementation of High-Speed LDPC Decoder with Cross-Layer Scheduling for CV-QKD
    Hao Cheng, Weicheng Yu, Yong Chen, Genlong Chen, Yi Yang and Xue-Qin Jiang

  42. Quantum Key Distribution over Multimode Fiber Infrastructure
    Ondrej Klicnik, Nikolaos Makris, Argiris Ntanos, Aris Stathis, Grigoris Anastasiou, Konstantinos Tsimvrakidis, Giannis Giannoulis, Hercules Avramopoulos, Petr Munster, George Kanellos and Tomas Horvath

  43. Globally secured end-to-end QKD
    Sumit Chaudhary, Baqir Kazmi and Janis Nötzel

  44. Quantum Multi-Party Computation (QMPC) for Enhanced Blockchain Consensus
    Hsiau Chuen Chong and K. L. Eddie Law

  45. Software Defined Networks and Key Relay for Large-Scale Quantum Key Distribution Networks
    Stephan Laschet, Gergely Lendvay, Thomas Lorünser, Paul James, Luca Torresetti and Alessandro Colombo

  46. Improved Bounds for Practical Reference-Frame-Independent Quantum Key Distribution
    Costantino Agnesi, Paolo Villoresi and Giuseppe Vallone

  47. Quantum Optimization for Access Point Selection Under Budget Constraint
    Mohamed Khalil Brik, Ahmed Shokry and Moustafa Youssef

  48. Scalable Quantum Molecular Generation via GPU-Accelerated Tensor-Network Simulation
    Yu-Cheng Xiao, Jen-Yu Chang, Tzu-Ling Kuo, Aninda Astuti, Shu-Chi Wu, Ka-Lok Ng, Yun-Yuan Wang, Yu-Ze Chen, Nan-Yow Chen and Tai-Yue Li

  49. Enhancing Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithm Using Quantum and Pseudo Randomness-Based Initialization
    Krit Klongwithee, Boonyarit Samran, Rajchawit Sarochawikasit, Prapong Prechaprapranwong, Ruchipas Bavontaweepanya and Ekkarat Pongophas

Invited Papers
  1. Q2NS: A Modular Framework for Quantum Network Simulation in ns-3
    Adam Pearson, Francesco Mazza, Marcello Caleffi and Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

  2. Enhancing Security in Near-Field Location Division Multiple Access by Variational Quantum Circuit
    Quan Minh Nguyen, Bhaskara Narottama, Minh-Hien T. Nguyen, Vishal Sharma, Quang Nhat Le and Trung Q. Duong

  3. Obfuscated Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography
    Anju Rani, Xiaoyu Ai, Aman Gupta, Ravi Singh Adhikari and Robert Malaney

  4. Toward Quantum-Optimized Flow Scheduling in Multi-Beam Digital Satellites
    Qiben Yan, John P. Stenger and Daniel Gunlycke

  5. Task Concurrency and Compatibility in Measurement-Based Quantum Networks
    Jakob Kaltoft Søndergaard, René Bødker Christensen and Petar Popovski

  6. Minimum Cost Swapping and Purification Scheduling over Quantum Repeater Chains
    Jiyao Liu, Lei Fan, Yuanxiong Guo, Zhu Han and Yu Wang

  7. Effective Entanglement Scheduling in Quantum Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Xun Wang, Longbo Huang and John C.S. Lui

Posters
  1. Quantum Circuit for Quantum Fourier Transform for Arbitrary Qubit Connectivity Graphs
    Kamil Khadiev, Aliya Khadieva, Vadim Sagitov and Kamil Khasanov

  2. Toward Quantum-Resilient Software Supply Chains: A DevSecOps Case Study with Hybrid Post-Quantum Artifact Signing
    Rafael Silva

  3. Application-Specific Routing Strategies in SDN-Enabled Quantum Key Distribution Networks for 6G Security
    Haftay Gebreslasie Abreha, Francesco Vista, Intidhar Bedhief, Seid Koudia and Symeon Chatzinotas

  4. Formal Verification of a Mediated Semi-Quantum Key Distribution (MSQKD) Protocol in Coq
    Jul Jon General

  5. Multi-domain IPsec over MACsec QKD Field Deployed Demonstration
    Alkinoos Papageorgopoulos, Konstantinos Tsimvrakidis, Nikolas Makris, Persefoni Konteli, Grigoris Anastasiou, Evrydiki Kyriazi, Petros Papapetropoulos, Ilias Papastamatiou, Andreas Agrafiotis, Giannis Giannoulis and George T. Kanellos

  6. Field-deployed 800 (2x400) Gbps Bidirectional Fiber-Wireless-Fiber QKD-encrypted OTNsec Transmission
    Nikolaos Makris, Panagiotis Kourelias, Persefoni Konteli, Evrydiki Kyriazi, Alkinoos Papageorgopoulos, Panagiotis Toumasis, Zafeirios Georgiadis, Argiris Ntanos, Aristeidis Stathis, Konstantinos Tsimvrakidis, Hercules Avramopoulos, Giannis Giannoulis and George T. Kanellos

  7. IPsec based on Quantum Key Distribution: Adapting non-3GPP access to 5G Networks to the Quantum Era
    Asier Atutxa, Ane Sanz, Eire Salegi, Gaizka González, Jasone Astorga and Eduardo Jacob

  8. CV-QKD security improvement through SNMP-based quantum-network management
    Alberto Sebastián-Lombraña, Laura Ortiz, Sebastian Etcheverry, Arturo Villegas, Josefina Cresta, Marco Cofano and Vicente Martin-Ayuso

  9. A Shared Risk Link Group Approach for Multi-Path Key Relay in QKD Networks
    Hedwig Koerfgen, David Schatz, Guido Ernest Smeenk and Guenter Schaefer

  10. Hardware-Accelerated Quantum Entropy Distribution for Post-Quantum Cryptographic Infrastructure: A Formally Verified Framework
    Zachary Kleckner

  11. Quantum Key Distribution Using Entangled Pairs with Random Grouping
    Archana Jayprakash Singh, Zouheir Rezki, Zain Ali and Hamid Sadjadpour

  12. Performance Characterization of VLC-QKD under Realistic Indoor Scenarios
    Hanojhan Rajahrajasingh, Vishalya Sooriarachchi and Dushantha Nalin Jayakody

  13. BBM92 Quantum Key Distribution with Non-Maximally Entangled States in Random Scattering Media Using Kraus Operators
    Nour Rizk, Angélique Drémeau and Arnaud Coatanhay

  14. Quantum Technology Readiness Adoption Model: A TOE-Aligned Framework for Addressing Dual Quantum Technology Risk Exposure
    Shadya Maldonado Rosado, Trevor Bowman, Dr. Anna Shebanow, Andrew Smallwood and Dr. William Butler

Workshop Papers

Workshop on Quantum Computing for Classical Computational Challenges in HPC
  1. QUBO-Based Wildfire Evacuation Host Community Selection Using a Quantum-Inspired GPU Annealer
    Chia-Ho Ou and Raphaël Franco

  2. A Model Context Protocol Server for Quantum Execution in Hybrid Quantum-HPC Environments
    Masaki Shiraishi, Ikko Hamamura, Tatsuya Ishigaki and Tadashi Kadowaki

  3. MADQRL: Distributed Quantum Reinforcement Learning Framework for Multi-Agent Environments
    Abhishek Sawaika, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Udaya Parampalli and Rajkumar Buyya

  4. Q-DIVER: Integrated Quantum Transfer Learning and Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search with EEG Data
    Junghoon Justin Park, Yeonghyeon Park and Jiook Cha

  5. Scalable Tensor-Network Simulation for Quantum–Classical Dual Kernel
    Mei Ian Sam and Tai Yue Li

  6. Annealing-based approach to solving partial differential equations
    Kazue Kudo

  7. Quantum Walk-based Hash Function: Scalable Readout for Proof of Quantum Work
    Shogo Shimada, Pulak Ranjan Giri, Rei Sato and Kazuhiro Saito

  8. Hybrid Quantum Temporal Convolutional Networks
    Junghoon Justin Park, Maria Pak, Sebin Lee, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Shinjae Yoo, Huan-Hsin Tseng and Jiook Cha

  9. High-Order Epistasis Detection Using Factorization Machine with Quadratic-Optimization Annealing and MDR-Based Evaluation
    Shuta Kikuchi and Shu Tanaka

  10. Benchmarking Classical and Quantum Optimization Approaches for Rider–Order Assignment
    Tharrmashastha Sapv, Surya Prakash Palanivel, Jasjyot Singh Gulati and Maruthu Pandi M.

Workshop on Quantum Computing - Artificial Intelligence for Industry Applications and Scientific Discovery
  1. Quantum-Enhanced Temporal Embeddings via a Hybrid Seq2Seq Architecture
    Tien-Ching Hsieh, Yun-Cheng Tsai and Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

  2. Meta-Learning for GPU-Accelerated Quantum Many-Body Problems
    Yun-Hsuan Chen, Ran-Yu Chang, Tsung-Wei Huang and En-Jui Kuo

  3. Contextuality-Informed Randomized Kernels for Qutrit Classification
    Jia-Yang Gao

  4. QuIC: A Quantum-Inspired Interaction Classifier for Revitalizing Shallow CNNs in Fine-Grained Recognition
    Cheng Ying Wu and Yen Jui Chang

  5. Federated Quantum Kernel Learning for Decentralized Anomaly Detection in Zero Trust Edge Networks
    Shengjie Xu and Yi Qian

  6. A Portable Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Network for Continual Learning
    Zeyu Yang, Yunpeng Bai, Changyi Li and Yu Xiao

  7. National Quantum Strategies: A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding the Quantum Ecosystem
    Simon Richard Goorney, Emre Aslan, Aleksandrs Baskakovs, Borja Munoz and Jacob Sherson

  8. Active Sampling Sample-based Quantum Diagonalization from Finite-Shot Measurements
    Rinka Miura

  9. Energy-Efficient Quantum Communication Systems for Sustainable National Networks
    Wai Yie Leong

  10. Resolving Bottlenecks in Quantum Machine Learning: Encoding Theory and Data Augmentation
    Mariia Baidachna, Isabel Pedraza and Sergei Gleyzer

  11. Leggett-type Tests as a Benchmark for NISQ Entanglement Quality
    Alex Radocea

  12. Generating Probability Distributions using Variational Quantum Circuits
    Ronit Raj, Kshitij Durge, Manish Mallapur, Rohit Taeja Kumar and Ankur Raina

  13. A Hybrid Edge–AI–HPC–Quantum Architecture with Selective Quantum Optimization for Industrial Digital Twins
    Jhonny A. Mosquera Ocampo, Anilson Monteiro and Ayrton Gomes

  14. Quantum Random Forest for the Regression Problem
    Kamil Khadiev and Liliya Safina

Workshop on Connecting the Dots: Technology, People, and Society in the Quantum Era
  1. National Quantum Strategies: A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding the Quantum Ecosystem
    Simon Richard Goorney, Emre Aslan, Borja Munoz, Aleksandrs Baskakovs and Jacob Sherson

  2. Quantum Key Distribution over Tropical Metro Fiber Networks: Performance, Reliability, and Climate Effects in Malaysia
    Wai Yie Leong

Workshop on Quantum Networking and Computing
  1. Resource-Constrained Quantum Implementation and Analysis of Mini-AES Cipher
    Syed Shah Mir, Ghulam Murtaza, Elmahdi Bentafat, Mohamed Abdallah, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Saif Al-Kuwari and Tasawar Abbas

  2. Quantum Circuit Watermarking: Design and Evaluation of a Quantum Watermarking Framework using Qiskit
    Nathanael Ian Gunadi and Yoshito Tobe

  3. Recursive QAOA for Interference-Aware Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
    Kuan-Cheng Chen, Hiromichi Matsuyama, Wei-Hao Huang and Yu Yamashiro

  4. Post-Quantum Cryptography: Comprehensive Analysis of Current Challenges and Future Directions
    Anastazija Pažin

  5. Teleportation of Coherent-State Qubits with Asymmetric and Lossy Entanglement Distribution
    Davide Andromari, Andrea Giani, Moe Z. Win and Andrea Conti

  6. Parallel Multi-Circuit Quantum Feature Fusion in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Convolutional Neural Networks for Breast Tumor Classification
    Ece Yurtseven

  7. Optimizing Resource Allocation in a Distributed Quantum Computing Cloud: A Game-Theoretic Approach
    Bernard Ousmane Sane, Michal Hajdusek and Rodney Van Meter

  8. Instruction-Set Architecture for Programmable NV-Center Quantum Repeater Nodes
    S. Janani Lakshmanan, Vinay Kumar, Claudio Cicconetti, Riccardo Bassoli, Marco Conti and Andrea Passarella

  9. Quantum Spin–Driven Mechanistic Insights into Drug Adverse Reactions
    Don Roosan, Mazharul Karim, Mohammad Masudur Rahman and Rubayat Khan

  10. Quantum-Enhanced Hybrid Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dynamic Path Planning in Autonomous Systems
    Sahil Tomar, Mohd Shamshe Alam, Sandeep Kumar and Amit Mathur

  11. Applied Quantum Machine Learning on PCB Multi-Class Defect Detection
    Ching-Wen Huang, Kuan-Cheng Chen and Ching-Jui Lai

  12. Real Quantum Computers Applied to Audio
    Alex Alani and Eduardo Miranda

  13. Quantum Approximate Optimization for Targeted Weight Removal in Large Language Models
    Don Roosan, Mazharul Karim, Rubayat Khan and Avik Mahata

  14. Quantum Shared Information for Probabilistic Distributed Multiagent Coordination
    Seng Loke

  15. Quantum Computational Simulation of CRISPR–Cas9 Edits Targeting the Salt Bridge in Amyloid-β
    Avik Mahata, Rubayat Khan, Mazhar Razon and Don Roosan

  16. Responsible Entanglement Revocation Protocol for Quantum Networks
    Agi Prasetiadi and Masahiro Mambo

  17. How Quantum Key Distribution Secure Encryption Methods in the Advent of Practical Quantum Computers: BB84 Protocol Analysis
    Bella Liu

  18. Optimization of Interference-Aware Wireless Mesh Networks using Quantum Algorithm
    Istiak Mahmud and Ahmed Abdelhadi

  19. A Clean 2D Floquet Logical Qubit from a Purely Imaginary Phase Drive
    Cinque McFarlane-Blake

  20. W-State Leader Election for PBFT Based Quantum Leader Election
    Juan Pablo Robledo Meza, Jelena Misic and Vojislav Misic

  21. How Quantum Key Distribution Secure Encryption Methods in the Advent of Practical Quantum Computers: BB84 Protocol Analysis
    Bella Liu

  22. A Transfer Learning-Driven Hybrid Quantum-Classical Framework for Fast and Accurate Grading of Diabetic Retinopathy
    Nitin Shivsharan and Sanjay Ganorkar







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