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CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics

With increase in the use of contactless deliveries during the times such as COVID-19 pandemic, the emphasis was to minimize the human presence to reduce the spread of virus. In this regard, drones are one promising alternative to be used as delivery agents. However, security and Quality of Service (...

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Autores principales: Singh, Maninderpal, Aujla, Gagangeet Singh, Bali, Rasmeet Singh, Batth, Ranbir Singh, Singh, Amritpal, Vashisht, Sahil, Jindal, Anish
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Vienna 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8919920/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00607-022-01064-7
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author Singh, Maninderpal
Aujla, Gagangeet Singh
Bali, Rasmeet Singh
Batth, Ranbir Singh
Singh, Amritpal
Vashisht, Sahil
Jindal, Anish
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Aujla, Gagangeet Singh
Bali, Rasmeet Singh
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Singh, Amritpal
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description With increase in the use of contactless deliveries during the times such as COVID-19 pandemic, the emphasis was to minimize the human presence to reduce the spread of virus. In this regard, drones are one promising alternative to be used as delivery agents. However, security and Quality of Service (QoS) are major concerns while making use of drones for deliveries. In order to secure the drone communication system, we propose, CovaDel: a blockchain-based scheme to secure data transactions for the drone delivery use case that works in a phased manner. The proposed scheme make use of decoupled blockchain architecture to overcome the limited resources capabilities of drones to perform blockchain-based computations. Further, to ensure the QoS adherence, we also propose a QoS-aware communication approach that handles collisions and congestion on the basis of firefly algorithm’s attractiveness parameter (light intensity) received by the drones. Results obtained using a simulated environment verify the efficacy of the proposed scheme on the basis of gas consumed, transaction time, average network throughput, and delay.
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spelling pubmed-89199202022-03-15 CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics Singh, Maninderpal Aujla, Gagangeet Singh Bali, Rasmeet Singh Batth, Ranbir Singh Singh, Amritpal Vashisht, Sahil Jindal, Anish Computing Special Issue Article With increase in the use of contactless deliveries during the times such as COVID-19 pandemic, the emphasis was to minimize the human presence to reduce the spread of virus. In this regard, drones are one promising alternative to be used as delivery agents. However, security and Quality of Service (QoS) are major concerns while making use of drones for deliveries. In order to secure the drone communication system, we propose, CovaDel: a blockchain-based scheme to secure data transactions for the drone delivery use case that works in a phased manner. The proposed scheme make use of decoupled blockchain architecture to overcome the limited resources capabilities of drones to perform blockchain-based computations. Further, to ensure the QoS adherence, we also propose a QoS-aware communication approach that handles collisions and congestion on the basis of firefly algorithm’s attractiveness parameter (light intensity) received by the drones. Results obtained using a simulated environment verify the efficacy of the proposed scheme on the basis of gas consumed, transaction time, average network throughput, and delay. Springer Vienna 2022-03-14 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8919920/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00607-022-01064-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics
title CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics
title_full CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics
title_fullStr CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics
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title_short CovaDel: a blockchain-enabled secure and QoS-aware drone delivery framework for COVID-like pandemics
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