Blockchain-enabled secure communication for drone delivery: a case study in COVID-like scenarios

Singh, Maninderpal; Aujla, Gagangeet Singh; Bali, Rasmeet Singh; Vashisht, Sahil; Singh, Amritpal; Jindal, Anish

doi:10.1145/3414045.3415937

Blockchain-enabled secure communication for drone delivery: a case study in COVID-like scenarios

Singh, Maninderpal; Aujla, Gagangeet Singh; Bali, Rasmeet Singh; Vashisht, Sahil; Singh, Amritpal; Jindal, Anish

Authors

Maninderpal Singh

Dr Gagangeet Aujla gagangeet.s.aujla@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Computer Science

Rasmeet Singh Bali

Sahil Vashisht

Amritpal Singh

Dr Anish Jindal anish.jindal@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Abstract

COVID-19 made the world stop, with people trapped inside their homes and governments trying to restrict the public movement. However, to accomplish this, one big problem that emerged and outscored everything else was catering to the day to day necessary items of the people without human involvement. In this regard, we propose a blockchain-enabled secure communication framework for delivering the goods in COVID-19 like scenarios by leveraging the drones that are available with commercial retail providers. The blockchain scheme is used to create smart contracts to build the trust of buyers and sellers on the framework as the payments are made through the smart contract executions. The blockchain based order processing ensures the integrity and authenticity of the information. Moreover, a communication model is presented along with the order, delivery and payment phases. The results prove the effectiveness of the proposed scheme by evaluating it based on gas price, transaction time, and mining time.

Citation

Singh, M., Aujla, G. S., Bali, R. S., Vashisht, S., Singh, A., & Jindal, A. (2020, September). Blockchain-enabled secure communication for drone delivery: a case study in COVID-like scenarios. Presented at Proceedings of the 2nd ACM MobiCom Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond, London, United Kingdom

Presentation Conference Type	Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name	Proceedings of the 2nd ACM MobiCom Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond
Start Date	Sep 21, 2020
End Date	Sep 25, 2020
Acceptance Date	Apr 2, 2018
Online Publication Date	Oct 7, 2020
Publication Date	2020-09
Deposit Date	Apr 27, 2021
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	25-30
ISBN	9781450381055
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/3414045.3415937
Keywords	block chain; drone delivery; internet of drones; security
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1139646