An unmanned aerial vehicle swarm state consensus architecture
Online published: 2025-07-18
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The consensus on the state consistency of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is a crucial guarantee for the collaborative operations. The existing state consistency consensus methods are mostly applied in scenarios such as distributed databases and blockchain, and are characterized by stable network topology and simple task requirements. However, the high dynamics of UAV swarms lead to issues such as fragile network connections and diverse coexisting states, making it difficult for the existing state consistency consensus methods to be applicable. To address these issues, a state consistency consensus architecture for UAV swarms was proposed, providing theoretical support for ensuring the collaborative capabilities of UAV swarms. Firstly, it analyzes the problems existing in the state consistency of UAV swarms were analyzed in terms of models, protocols, and networks, and the existing research was summarized. Secondly, based on the Basically Available-Soft state-Eventually consistent (BASE) and Atomicity-Consistency-Isolation-Durability (ACID) theories, a relationship between soft state and weak consistency was established, and an asynchronous consensus protocol was designed for multi-cluster soft forks under the weak connections. Finally, simulation experiment results conducted in a flying ad-hoc network (FANET) showed that the proposed architecture could meet the state consistency consensus requirements of the high-dynamic UAV swarms.
TONG Wei , SHEN Jian , ZHANG Yuanyu , SHEN Yulong . An unmanned aerial vehicle swarm state consensus architecture[J]. Journal of Cybersecurity, 2025 , 3(2) : 41 -48 . DOI: 10.20172/j.issn.2097-3136.250204
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