PROACT: Parallel multi-miner proof of accumulated trust protocol for Internet of Drones

Several types of networks that comprise unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV or drone) are being utilized in important applications such as emergency response, environment and infrastructure monitoring, defense security, commerce. In networks, swarms UAVs cooperate executing one more missions to achieve the application's objectives. The communicate with terrestrial by connecting fixed mobile ground control stations (GCS). ability drones connect online offer services Internet users has led proliferation Drones (IoD). However, IoD highly vulnerable many cyberattacks. Hence, mechanisms must be deployed secure operations data. Recently, blockchain been proposed a solution detect prevent malicious attacks on UAV network (UAVN). Due UAV's limited resources, it becomes challenge integrate into IoD. this paper, we propose model enables drone store data requires during its flight within lightweight system. addition, new consensus mechanism which several miners produce their blocks parallel, decreases time needed add transactions securely meets requirements delay-sensitive applications. Our simulations prove advantages decreasing transaction-to-blockchain delay, average energy consumption, block size compared other systems.