IPV6 Blockchain Data Communication for UAV Swarm-Intelligence Systems based on Peer-to-Peer, Peer-to-Many, and Many-to-Peer Scenarios
Abstract
This thesis explores the use of blockchains along with the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) data packet messages to support secure, high-performance, and scalable communication with an intelligent swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). For this thesis, we investigate the exchange of encrypted data packets for three scenarios, those being peer-to-peer, peer-to-many, and many-to-peer. We simulate the swarms behavior for each of these scenarios and vary the number of UAVs in a swarm over the simulation runs. The simulation-based results showed that for peer-to-peer scenarios and many-to-peer scenarios, there is no significant increase in latency even though in many-to-peer scenarios, the number of interacting nodes increases. In contrast, latency increases for the peer-to-many scenarios. Additional research needs to be performed to assess the security and scalability of the blockchain-IPv6 approach proposed in this thesis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1200491
Entities
People
- Dymas Dymas
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School