Blockchain-based secure and intelligent data dissemination framework for UAVs in battlefield applications

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dc.contributor.authorJadav, Nilesh Kumar
dc.contributor.authorRathod, Tejal
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Rajesh
dc.contributor.authorTanwar, Sudeep
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Neeraj
dc.contributor.authorIqbal, Rahat
dc.contributor.authorAtalla, Shadi
dc.contributor.authorMohammad, Hijji
dc.contributor.authorAl-Rubaye, Saba
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T15:52:46Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T15:52:46Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-30
dc.description.abstractThe modern warfare scenario has immense challenges that can risk personnel's lives, highlighting the need for data acquisition to win a military operation successfully. In this context, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a significant role by covertly acquiring reconnaissance data from an enemy location to make the friendly troops aware. The acquired data is mission-critical and needs to be secured from the intruders, which can implicitly manipulate it for their benefit. Moreover, UAVs collect a large amount of data, including high-definition images and surveillance videos; handling such a massive amount of data is a bottleneck on traditional communication networks. To mitigate these issues, this article proposes a blockchain and machine learning (ML)-based secure and intelligent UAV communication underlying sixth-generation (6G) networks, that is, Block-USB. The proposed system refrain the disclosure of highly-sensitive military operations from intruders (either a rogue UAV or a malicious controller). The proposed system uses off-chain storage, that is, Interplanetary file system (IPFS), to improve the blockchain storage capacity. We also present a case study on securing UAV-based military operations by considering multiple scenarios considering controller/UAV malicious. The performance of the proposed system outperforms the traditional baseline 4G/5G and non IPFS-based systems in terms of classification accuracy, communication latency, and data scalability.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationJadav NK, Rathod T, Gupta R, et al., (2023) Blockchain-based secure and intelligent data dissemination framework for UAVs in battlefield applications. IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2023, pp. 16-23en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2471-2825
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/MCOMSTD.0005.2200052
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/20411
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherIEEEen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.titleBlockchain-based secure and intelligent data dissemination framework for UAVs in battlefield applicationsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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