Optimal AI and Quantum Secured Wireless–Optical Communication Design for Smart Cities in Qatar

Doha’s smart-city vision depends on massive wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that interconnect traffic, energy, water, and environmental systems. These infrastructures must operate reliably at Gulf-city scale, where extreme heat, dust storms, haze, and intense solar background radiation pose unique challenges to communication links. Beyond reliability, security has become mission-critical: a breach in smart grid control links could disrupt power distribution across the city, while compromised transport or emergency service links could directly endanger citizens’ safety. Quantum Hub: Integrating Quantum AI & Communications to Secure Smart Transportation, Finance, Power Grids, and Sensor Networks. Conventional wireless and optical technologies, though mature, cannot alone guarantee resilience against future quantum-capable adversaries. Similarly, classical AI-based optimization is insufficient to handle the multi-layer complexity of heterogeneous smart city networks. This creates an urgent need for an Optimal Design Framework that integrates AI, Quantum-Inspired AI (QAI), and Quantum Communication (QKD), tailored to Qatar’s climate, infrastructure, and national security priorities

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)