SanJeeVni: Secure UAV-Envisioned Massive Vaccine Distribution for COVID-19 Underlying 6G Network

【Author】 Verma, Ashwin; Bhattacharya, Pronaya; Saraswat, Deepti; Tanwar, Sudeep; Kumar, Neeraj; Sharma, Ravi

【Source】IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

【影响因子】4.325

【Abstract】Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are deployed in Novel Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccine distribution process. To address issues of fake vaccine distribution, real-time massive UAV monitoring and control at nodal centers (NCs), the authors propose SanJeeVni, a blockchain (BC)-assisted UAV vaccine distribution at the backdrop of sixth-generation (6G) enhanced ultra-reliable low latency communication (6G-eRLLC) communication. The scheme considers user registration, vaccine request, and distribution through a public Solana BC setup, which assures a scalable transaction rate. Based on vaccine requests at production setups, UAV swarms are triggered with vaccine delivery to NCs. An intelligent edge offloading scheme is proposed to support UAV coordinates and routing path setups. The scheme is compared against fifth-generation (5G) uRLLC communication. In the simulation, we achieve and 86% improvement in service latency, 12.2% energy reduction of UAV with 76.25% more UAV coverage in 6G-eRLLC, and a significant improvement of approximate to 199.76% in storage cost against the Ethereum network, which indicates the scheme efficacy in practical setups.

【Keywords】Vaccines; 6G mobile communication; Autonomous aerial vehicles; COVID-19; Task analysis; Sensors; Medical diagnostic imaging; 6G; blockchain; edge offloading; Solana chain; UAV swarms; ultra-reliable low latency communications; unmanned aerial vehicles

【发表时间】2023 15-Jan

【收录时间】2023-05-11

【文献类型】实验仿真

【主题类别】

区块链应用-实体经济-无人机领域