A low-cost communication security scheme of UAV based on multi-round reverse auction model

Abstract

In recent years, the security of wireless communication has received more and more attention. However, with the increasing requirements for security performance in the process of wireless communication, the cost of improving security also increases. Therefore, how to improve the security of wireless communication while reducing costs has become a serious challenge. Aiming at the security problems in the UAV-assisted wireless communication link based on the premise of low cost and high profit, this paper studies how to motivate non-offloading users to send jamming power to interfere with eavesdropping UAVs, so efficiently and economically to improve the security performance of wireless communication link. Firstly, the relationship between the security performance of the communication link and the interference power is revealed through the theoretical model. Then, we propose a scenario consisting of a legitimate UAV, a ground user group, and an eavesdrop UAV. In this scenario, we divide the ground users into offloading users and non-offloading users. At the same time, the cost functions for offloading users and utility functions for non-offloading users are defined, and non-offloading users are encouraged to help to offload users unload data safely to a legitimate UAV by obtaining rewards for offloading users. Considering the selfishness of users, a reverse auction algorithm based on multi-user groups is proposed to achieve the optimal mapping between non-offloading users and offloading users. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by a large number of simulations. The research results show that the scheme innovative designs a method for users to cooperate to interfere with eavesdroppers, which can reduce costs and improve utility while maximizing the improvement of wireless communication link security.