Privacy-Preserving Attestation Scheme for Revocable UAV Charging Using Hybrid State Channels
Although widely applied in varied scenarios, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer severe flight time and flight range limitations due to constrained onboard battery capacity, causing frequent battery recharging when performing persistent missions. The wireless power transfer technology is a promis...
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| description | Although widely applied in varied scenarios, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer severe flight time and flight range limitations due to constrained onboard battery capacity, causing frequent battery recharging when performing persistent missions. The wireless power transfer technology is a promising solution for UAV charging by utilizing unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) equipped with wireless charging facilities, where charging time slots are auctioned and assigned to UAVs. However, UGVs themselves also have limited energy capacity, resulting in the need to revoke a UAV charging transaction after auction to satisfy their own demand if necessary. In addition, as UAVs and UGVs are mutually distrustful, inherent security and privacy concerns must be resolved during the revocation. In this paper, we resort to blockchain technology for secure and efficient revocable charging in vehicle-assisted wireless UAV networks. We present PAS, an efficient privacy-preserving attestation scheme for revocable UAV charging based on hybrid state channels, where UAVs and UGVs perform off-chain operations as blockchain users for privacy and efficiency, while security and fairness are guaranteed by the on-chain mechanism. PAS consists of a multi-party state channel and multiple two-party state channels responsible for charging scheduling and transaction revocation, respectively. PAS ensures fair and private revocation negotiation and compensation in a trust-free manner by developing a set of carefully designed modular protocols. We provide PAS’ constituent primitives in detail, prove its security properties following the universally composable (UC) framework, and present experimental results to demonstrate its feasibility and scalability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9ef2be530e224a478a3ade7c67ac4deb2023-11-19T14:15:47ZengMDPI AGElectronics2079-92922023-09-011219399810.3390/electronics12193998Privacy-Preserving Attestation Scheme for Revocable UAV Charging Using Hybrid State ChannelsXuedan Jia0Xiangmei Song1Chuntang Yu2School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, ChinaAlthough widely applied in varied scenarios, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer severe flight time and flight range limitations due to constrained onboard battery capacity, causing frequent battery recharging when performing persistent missions. The wireless power transfer technology is a promising solution for UAV charging by utilizing unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) equipped with wireless charging facilities, where charging time slots are auctioned and assigned to UAVs. However, UGVs themselves also have limited energy capacity, resulting in the need to revoke a UAV charging transaction after auction to satisfy their own demand if necessary. In addition, as UAVs and UGVs are mutually distrustful, inherent security and privacy concerns must be resolved during the revocation. In this paper, we resort to blockchain technology for secure and efficient revocable charging in vehicle-assisted wireless UAV networks. We present PAS, an efficient privacy-preserving attestation scheme for revocable UAV charging based on hybrid state channels, where UAVs and UGVs perform off-chain operations as blockchain users for privacy and efficiency, while security and fairness are guaranteed by the on-chain mechanism. PAS consists of a multi-party state channel and multiple two-party state channels responsible for charging scheduling and transaction revocation, respectively. PAS ensures fair and private revocation negotiation and compensation in a trust-free manner by developing a set of carefully designed modular protocols. We provide PAS’ constituent primitives in detail, prove its security properties following the universally composable (UC) framework, and present experimental results to demonstrate its feasibility and scalability.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/19/3998unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)chargingprivacy preservationrevocationstate channel |
| spellingShingle | Xuedan Jia Xiangmei Song Chuntang Yu Privacy-Preserving Attestation Scheme for Revocable UAV Charging Using Hybrid State Channels Electronics unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) charging privacy preservation revocation state channel |
| title | Privacy-Preserving Attestation Scheme for Revocable UAV Charging Using Hybrid State Channels |
| title_full | Privacy-Preserving Attestation Scheme for Revocable UAV Charging Using Hybrid State Channels |
| title_fullStr | Privacy-Preserving Attestation Scheme for Revocable UAV Charging Using Hybrid State Channels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Privacy-Preserving Attestation Scheme for Revocable UAV Charging Using Hybrid State Channels |
| title_short | Privacy-Preserving Attestation Scheme for Revocable UAV Charging Using Hybrid State Channels |
| title_sort | privacy preserving attestation scheme for revocable uav charging using hybrid state channels |
| topic | unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) charging privacy preservation revocation state channel |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/19/3998 |
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