EVO-SCHIRP: Evolved Secure Swarm Communications

IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)

Shaya Wolf, Rafer Cooley, Mike Borowczak, Nicholas Cheney,

Introduction

CHIRP (Communication for Heterogeneous IoTs with Round-robin Protection), an optimal communication protocol, performs poorly in networks with multiple agent groups (cliques). Research began on modifying and securing CHIRP with a project called S-CHIRP(Secure CHIRP). However, SCHIRP still provides sub-optimal multi-clique communication. We created an evolutionary protocol, EVO-SCHIRP (Evolutionary S-CHIRP) and compare results against CHIRP and S-CHIRP based on communication efficiency and information security. This research took place in two phases. First, EVO-SCHIRP was compared to CHIRP by implementing an efficient communication protocol with one clique. Second, EVO-SCHIRP was compared to S-CHIRP by considering communication security. This research opportunity extends research in many fields such as swarm intelligence, evolutionary robotics, information security, autonomic systems, and decentralized communication. The CHIRP protocols have many applications such as drone communication, infrastructure inspection, and biomedical sensors.

Expanding the S-CHIRP protocol using evolutionary algorithms.

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Bibtex Citation:

@INPROCEEDINGS{8656982, author={Wolf, Shaya and Cooley, Rafer and Borowczak, Mike and Cheney, Nicholas}, booktitle={2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)}, title={EVO-SCHIRP: Evolved Secure Swarm Communications}, year={2018}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-4}, doi={10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656982}}