Predictive and Adaptive Communications for Real-Time Dynamic Network Management in Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks

Abstract

In this project, studied the communication and security challenges of UAV ad hoc networks from various aspects: i) We developed a new routing protocol for ad hoc UAV networks to handle the highly dynamic nature of such networks. We showed that the proposed routing algorithm outperforms all the well-known benchmarks in the flow success rate, throughput, and flow completion time; ii) we studied the security challenges of ad hoc UAV network and showed that existing pre-distribution-based key management protocols are vulnerable to cooperative attacks. We designed a Blockchain-based key exchange algorithm to increase the resiliency of the network against such attacks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1153476

Entities

People

  • Fatemeh Afghah
  • M. Gharib

Organizations

  • Northern Arizona University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Adaptive Communications
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Blockchain
  • Contracts
  • Cryptography
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Linear Programming
  • Networks
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy