Blockchain-Envisioned Softwarized Multi-Swarming UAVs to Tackle COVID-I9 Situations

With the spread of novel coronavirus, global health concerns have increased as it has flattened the curve of mortality worldwide. To handle such a containment of disease, multi-swarm Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with 5G can be used to reduce human intervention with major benefits of high bandwidth, ultra-low-latency, and reliability. Multi-swarm UAVs sends a huge amount of data to ground stations with real-time connection density of 107/km(2), which is a bottleneck on 5G networks; data security is another issue in sharing sensitive data. Motivated by these issues, in this article, we propose a blockchain-envisioned softwarized multi-swarming UAV communication scheme based on a 6G network with intelligent connectivity, Terahertz (THz) frequency bands, and virtualization of link and physical-level protocols. Softwarization makes the communication infrastructure flexible, agile, and easily configu-rabie, and the potential of blockchain supports data security. Results show that the proposed scheme performs better in terms of processing delay, packet loss reduction, and throughput compared to exiting 4G/5G-based systems.

Automated summary

With the spread of novel coronavirus, concerns about global health have increased, prompting the proposal of using 5G multi-swarm UAVs to handle disease containment. A blockchain-envisioned softwarized multi-swarming UAV communication scheme based on a 6G network is suggested to achieve intelligent connectivity and data security, showing superior performance compared to existing systems.