Game theoretical secure wireless communication for UAV-assisted vehicular Internet of Things

Abstract

With the ever-expanding applications of vehicles and the development of wireless communication technology, the burgeoning unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted vehicular internet of things (UVIoTs) has emerged, where the ground vehicles can experience more efficient wireless services by employing UAVs as a temporary mobile base station. However, due to the diversity of UAVs, there exist UAVs such as jammers to degenerate the performance of wireless communication between the normal UAVs and vehicles. To solve above the problem, in this paper, we propose a game based secure data transmission scheme in UVIoTs. Specifically, we exploit the offensive and defensive game to model the interactions between the normal UAVs and jammers. Here, the strategy of the normal UAV is to determine whether to transmit data, while that of the jammer is whether to interfere. We then formulate two optimization problems, i.e., maximizing the both utilities of UAVs and jammers. Afterwards, we exploit the backward induction method to analyze the proposed countermeasures and finally solve the optimal solution. Lastly, the simulation results show that the proposed scheme can improve the wireless communication performance under the attacks of jammers compared with conventional schemes.