The Internet of Unmanned Vehicles (IoUV) is regarded as an emerging technology for military applications not only to make surveillance systems and battlefield operations fully coordinated and automated, but also to provide significant strategic advantages. All the UVs form a coordinated network for exchanging information in IoUV, which enhances context awareness and risk analysis, and improves response time to make the mission effective. This article provides a perspective of fusion of blockchain technology with software defined IoUV, also known as extended 5G, for the battlefield scenario. Software defined IoUV dynamically configures the network parameters and provides network visibility for better security and manageability of the network in IoUV. Block-chain technology helps to provide trustworthy command and control operations in IoUV and stores those operations in tamper-resistant digital ledgers in the form of transactions. Unmanned vehicles (UVs) with high computing, storage, battery life and transmission power act as miners that validate every transaction and are responsible for creating blocks of the blockchain. However, current blockchain technology suffers from scalability; thus, we propose sharding-enabled blockchain to address the issue where shards of lightweight UVs maintain the required number of miners/ auditors to handle the issues when a miner gets destroyed or damaged in the battlefield. Some participating UVs are used as wireless stations to provide persistent wireless connectivity in IoUV. The proposed framework aims to increase the trust and accountability, and to reduce business friction among different units involved in the battlefield.

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战场中无人车软件定义互联网的分片区块链


无人驾驶车辆互联网（IoUV）被视为军事应用的新兴技术，不仅可以使监视系统和战场行动完全协调和自动化，而且可以提供显着的战略优势。所有 UV 形成一个协调网络，用于在 IoUV 中交换信息，从而增强上下文感知和风险分析，并缩短响应时间，使任务有效。本文提供了区块链技术与软件定义的 IoUV（也称为扩展 5G）融合的战场场景的视角。软件定义的 IoUV 动态配置网络参数并提供网络可见性，以提高 IoUV 中网络的安全性和可管理性。区块链技术有助于在 IoUV 中提供值得信赖的命令和控制操作，并将这些操作以交易的形式存储在防篡改的数字账本中。具有高计算能力、存储能力、电池寿命和传输能力的无人驾驶车辆（UV）充当矿工，验证每笔交易并负责创建区块链区块。然而，当前的区块链技术存在可扩展性问题；因此，我们提出支持分片的区块链来解决轻量级 UV 分片维持所需数量的矿工/审计员以处理矿工在战场上被摧毁或损坏时的问题。一些参与的 UV 用作无线站，以在 IoUV 中提供持久的无线连接。拟议的框架旨在增加信任和问责制，并减少参与战场的不同单位之间的业务摩擦。