Immutable Secure Data Exchange and Storage for Urban Air Mobility Environments
Kenneth Freeman, Steve W. Garcia · AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum · 2022
View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-1092.vid Urban air mobility (UAM) is a concept that proposes to develop short-range aerial vehicles to overcome increasing surface congestion. Within the UAM environment, UAM operators work collaboratively to manage aerial vehicles in the urban environment. Providers of Services for UAM (PSU), UAM operators, and Supplemental Data Service Providers (SDSP) support flight operations within the UAM environment. The development of UAM systems and the associated data exchange and service interactions will be at risk due to numerous cybersecurity attacks. This research focuses on the secure data exchange and storage of this decentralized UAM environment to address these challenges. This research intends to leverage a permissioned blockchain approach to address cybersecurity threats that may impact a UAM environment.