TONG Wei, SHEN Jian, ZHANG Yuanyu, SHEN Yulong
Journal of Cybersecurity.
Accepted: 2025-04-19
The consensus on the state consistency of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms is a crucial guarantee for the collaborative operations. Existing state consistency consensus methods are mostly applied in scenarios such as distributed databases and blockchain, 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 existing state consistency consensus methods to be applicable. To address these issues, this paper proposes a state consistency consensus architecture for UAV swarms, providing theoretical support for ensuring the collaborative capabilities of UAV swarms. Firstly, it analyzes the problems existing in the state consistency of UAV swarms in terms of models, protocols, and networks, summarizing existing research. Secondly, based on the Basically Available-Soft state-Eventually consistent (BASE) and Atomicity-Consistency-Isolation-Durability (ACID) theories, it establishes a relationship between soft state and weak consistency, and designs an asynchronous consensus protocol for multi-cluster soft forks under weak connections. Finally, simulation experiment results conducted in a Flying Ad-hoc Network (FANET) show that the proposed architecture can meet the state consistency consensus requirements of high-dynamic UAV swarms.