Secure Multicast Routing Against Collaborative Attacks in FANETs With CF-mMIMO and STAR-RIS: Blockchain and Federated Learning Design

• Published in: IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 12; no. 12; pp. 22404 - 22426
• Main Authors: Pramitarini, Yushintia, Hendra Yoga Perdana, Ridho, Shim, Kyusung, An, Beongku
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 15.06.2025; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Ad hoc networks; Blockchain; Blockchains; cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO); Clustering; Collaboration; collaborative attack; Cybersecurity; Data models; Design optimization; Federated learning; federated learning (FL); Flight; flying ad hoc networks (FANETs); Incident waves; Internet of Things; Multicasting; Network security; Nodes; Protocol; Protocols; Quality of service; Quality of service architectures; Real time; Real-time systems; Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; Routing; Routing protocols; secure multicast routing; Signal quality; simultaneously transmitting and reflecting-reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS)

In this article, we propose novel federated learning (FL) and blockchain-based secure multicast routing (FBSMR) protocol in flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) with cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) and simultaneously transmitting and reflecting-reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) effectively...