Hardware-Aware QAOA for Honeypot Traffic Partitioning on 100+ Qubit IBM Quantum Processors

Denial-of-service DoS and distributed denial-of-service DDoS mitigation requires separating malicious traffic from benign traffic while minimizing disruption to legitimate users. Prior work proposed mapping honeypot traffic partitioning to a weighted MaxCut problem and solving the resulting graph...

Formulating Subgroup Discovery As a Quantum Optimization Problem for Network Security

While current network intrusion detection systems achieve satisfactory accuracy, they often lack explainability. Subgroup Discovery SD addresses this by building interpretable rules that characterize feature interactions associated with attack traffic. With large datasets, classical heuristic bea...

Secure and Energy-Efficient Wireless Agentic AI Networks

In this paper, we introduce a secure wireless agentic AI network comprising one supervisor AI agent and multiple other AI agents to provision quality of service QoS for users' reasoning tasks while ensuring confidentiality of private knowledge and reasoning outcomes. Specifically, the supervisor ...

CovertAuth: Joint Covert Communication and Authentication in MmWave Systems

Beam alignment BA is a crucial process in millimeter-wave mmWave communications, enabling precise directional transmission and efficient link establishment. However, due to characteristics like omnidirectional exposure and the broadcast nature of the BA phase, it is particularly vulnerable to...