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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-information-and-optimization-sciences</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0103</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0252-2667</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JIOS-2417</article-id>
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        <article-title>Robust detection of bucket brigade attacks in quantum networks using ascendable quantum non-local neural networks optimized with sharpbelly fish algorithm</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Thangapalani</surname>
            <given-names>L.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Computing, Bharath Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600073, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bala</surname>
            <given-names>K.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Computing, Bharath Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600073</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>47</volume>
      <issue>9-A</issue>
      <fpage>3225</fpage>
      <lpage>3240</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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        <p>Quantum communication is based on the laws of quantum mechanics e.g. superposition and no-cloning law to provide highly secure information transmission. In spite of the inherent positive attributes, this is still susceptible to advanced techniques of attack, primarily the Bucket Brigade Attack (BBA). In this attack, the attacker hacks and rereads qubits on a sequence of nodes interacting with each other, effectively damaging transmission without being detected, but emulating the effects of natural channels. Conventional defensive strategies built on such parameters as Quantum Bit Error Rate (QBER) or photon loss are often unable to detect such synchronized anomalies, especially in the case of scaled up multi-hop quantum networks. In order to address this dilemma, intelligent approaches that have the capability to detect hidden non-local relations and learning complex transmission schemes are required. The detection of the accurate attack is performed on an Ascendable Quantum Non-Local Neural Network (AQN-LNN) in the study, and Sharpbelly Fish Optimization algorithm is used to the detection framework and optimize its flexibility and strength regarding quantum communication security. The proposed approach has an accuracy of 99.9%.</p>
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