A hybrid blockchain method in internet of things for privacy and security in unmanned aerial vehicles network

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a huge amount of potential in a variety of applications, including healthcare, medical, traffic monitoring, military, and industry. UAVs are deployed in association with the Internet of Things (IoT) to facilitate receivers or end-users at the end for delivering IoT services, resulting in a new research domain. The objectives of this research work are to analyze and classify the peer-reviewed research on UAV IoT frameworks and identify the solution towards challenges related to the overall security including the privacy of the frameworks. In the article, an optimum solution for various security and reliability challenges in UAVenabled IoT applications is given using a fusion of several methods combining blockchain-based technologies. The results are obtained and compared on different parameters like overall system utility, accuracy, latency, and processing time. The proposed methodology results highlight the improvement and give novel directions toward future work.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) integrated with the Internet of Things (IoT) have great potential in various fields, but face security and reliability challenges. This research proposes an optimal solution for these challenges by combining blockchain-based technologies with multiple methods, and verifies its effectiveness and improvement in experiments.