A Secure Communication Framework for Drone Swarms in Autonomous Surveillance Operations

Drones have become indispensable tools in various domains, from surveillance and environmental monitoring to disaster response and communication relay. However, their growing use in critical missions necessitates robust security measures to protect against potential threats and ensure the integrity of operations. This research presents a novel secure architecture for a swarm of drones deployed on surveillance missions. Leveraging a reliable foundation established through Delaunay triangulation for communication among drones, this work introduces advanced security protocols to enhance the protection and integrity of the network. The architecture employs a mesh network topology connecting six drones, each configured for specific surveillance tasks, including perimeter monitoring, area scanning, thermal imaging, traffic observation, communication relay, and incident response. The mesh network design ensures extended coverage, redundancy, load balancing, and self-configuration, significantly improving reliability and resilience. Security validation was conducted using GNS3 and Ettercap, simulating various vulnerability scenarios. Comparative performance analysis between a classic drone network and the proposed secure mesh network demonstrates superior traffic management and robustness against potential attacks. The results underscore the architecture’s suitability for secure and reliable operations in critical surveillance environments.

The Characteristics of Earthquake Swarms in and around Jiangsu Province

This paper systematically analyzed 36 earthquake swarms in and around Jiangsu Province, summarized their characteristics and discussed the relationship between earthquske swarms and subsequent strong earthquakes. It also analyzed the judgment criteria for precursory earthquake swarms. Earthquake swarms in Jiangsu Province are concentrated in several areas. Most of them were of magnitude ML2.0～3.9. For most earthquake swarms, the number of earthquakes was less than 30. Time duration for about 55% of earthquake swarms was less than 15 days. The biggest magnitude of one earthquake swarm was not proportional to the number of earthquakes and time duration. There are 78% of earthquake swarms corresponded to the forthcoming earthquakes of M>4.6 in which there're 57% occured in one year, This shows a medium-and short-term criterion. Distance between earthquake swarm and future earthquake was distributed dispersedly. There were no earthquakes occurring in the same location as earthquake swarms. There was no good correlation between the magnitude and the corresponding rate of future earthquakes and the intensity of earthquake swarms. There was also no good correlation between the number of earthquakes in an earthquake swarm and the corresponding rate. The study also shows that it's better to use U-p or whole-combination to determine the type of earthquake swarm.

Identification of Five Stages of Dike Swarms in the Shanxi-Hebei-Inner Mongolia Border Area and Its Tectonic Implications

Dike swarms are generally ascribed to intrusion of mantle-source magma result from extension. Basic dike swarms around the Shanxi-Hebei-Inner Mogolia borders in the northern peripheral area of the North China Craton can be divided into five age groups according to isotopic dating: 1800-1700 Ma, 800-700 Ma, 230 Ma, 140-120 Ma, and 50-40 Ma. Geological, petrological and isotope geochemical features of the five groups is investigated in order to explore the variation of the mantle material composition in the concerned area with time. And the various extensional activities reflected by the five groups of dike swarms are compared with some important tectonic events within the North China Craton as well as around the world during the same period.

Self-organized motion in anisotropic swarms

This paper considers an anisotropic swarm model with a class of attraction and repulsion functions. It is shown that the members of the swarm will aggregate and eventually form a cohesive cluster of finite size around the swarm center. Moreover, It is also proved that under certain conditions, the swarm system can be completely stable, i.e., every solution converges to the equilibrium points of the system. The model and results of this paper extend a recent work on isotropic swarms to more general cases and provide further insight into the effect of the interaction pattern on self-organized motion in a swarm system. Keywords Biological systems - Multiagent systems - Pattern formation - Stability - Swarms This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60274001 and No. 10372002) and the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (No.2002CB312200).

Geochemistry and Emplacement of Post-collisional Shoshonitic Dyke Swarms, NW of Iran

About 300 mafic dykes are intruded Eocene volcanic and pyroclastic rocks,north east of Meshkinshahr city in the NW of Iran.Most of dyke swarms display NNE-SSE trend.Their composition varies from basalt to tephrite and

Giant Circumferential Dyke Swarms on Earth: Possible Analogues of Coronae on Venus and Similar Features on Mars

Venusian coronae are large(60-2600 km diameter)tectono-magmatic features characterized by quasi-circular graben-fissure systems and topographic features such as a central dome,central depression,circular rim or circular

Geochronology, Geochemistry and Tectonic Significance of Dike Swarms in Beishan, Gansu

Study area is located at Beishan,Gansu province.Beishan area located at conjunction site among Tarim plate,Sino-Korean plate and Kazakhstan plate,this special tectonic position has a very complex geological tectonic.

Mechanics of Mafic Dyke Swarms and Breakup of Supercontinent

Dyke swarms can be divided into three types:parallel dyke swarms,radiating dyke swarms and fan-shape dyke swarm,for which the mechanisms of formation are different(Fig.1).Parallel dyke swarms form in response

Tectonic Environments of the Yan-Liao Rift during Earth's Middle Age(1.7～0.75 Ga): Evidence from Mafic Dyke Swarms in Eastern Hebei, North China

During the past decade,generations of Precambrian mafic dykes/sills have been investigated and revealed in the North China Craton(NCC).Researchers identified more than 20 episodes of Precambrian dyke swarms,

The Spatial-Temporal Distribution Patterns of Dyke Swarms in Central Asia and their Tectonic Significance: Case Studies in Eastern Tianshan and Western Junggar

Dykes are a special kind of intrusive rocks which were formed by deep magma intruded into the existing brittle fractures in the crust.Dykes swarms in different tectonic environments are very significant to re-construct the

1:2500 000 Map of Precambrian Dyke Swarms and Related Units in North China

A 1:2500 000 map of major Precambrian mafic dyke swarms and related units in the North China Craton will be presented,and the features and geological implications of;0 swarms will be discussed and summarized:

Elusive Cenozoic Metamorphism in Mafic Dike Swarms within the Tethyan Himalaya, Southern Tibet

Mafic dike swarms are well-developed within the Tethyan Himalaya,southern Tibet,in response to the breakup of Gondwana supercontinent,seafloor spreading of the Tethyan Ocean,and forearc hyperextension during the

GRAVITY SETTLING OF DISPERSED PHASE DROP SWARMS IN EXTRACTION COLUMNS IN ABSENCE OF MASS TRANSFER

Taking into account the effect of velocity profiles of the continuous phase in interstices of drops,dragcoefficient and relative motion correlations for dispersed liquid-liquid two-phase flow in absence of mass transferwere developed in terms of the pseudo-fluid concept based on the simple similarity criteria and the mixtureviscosity model suggested by Ishii and Zuber.The present model was compared with the experimental data fromfive(different sources and also with seven other pertinent correlations available in literature.Fairly goodpredictions were obtained under wide ranges of the dispersed phase holdup and Reynolds number.The validity ofthe present model has also been checked against the experimental slip velocity data and holdup data obtained ina Karr reciprocating plate extraction column by the author of the present paper and satisfactory agreement isachieved、The results show that the equations of the motion of a multi-droplet system can be formulated in aform identical with those for a single

Dyke Swarms: Keys to Paleogeographic Reconstructions, Preface for IDC7 2016

Focusing on geological,geochemical and geophysical aspects of dykes and related units,the International Dyke Conference(IDC)series was launched in Toronto,Canada in 1985 by Prof.Henry C.Halls(University of Toronto).It has continued approximately every five years with

Extensional Tectonics, Rifting, Formation of Sedimentary Basins, Cretaceous Volcanism, Emplacement of Dyke Swarms and Development of Hydrocarbon Pools: Case Studies from Peninsular India and Indian Ocean Region

Prolonged extensional regime in peninsular India resulted in formation of rift and grabens,elongated basins and Gondwana sedimentation along them.Downward progression of rift related faults caused decompression

Mafic dykes swarms from the Chhotanagpur Gneiess Complex, Singhbhum craton, eastern India

The Singhbhum craton of the eastern Indian shield consists of two major crustal provinces viz.,Chotanagpur Gneissic Complex(CGC)and Singhbhum Granite Complex;separated by a Singhbhum Mobile Belt.There

Does Geochronology of Few Dykes of a Swarm are True Representative of All Dykes of the Same Magmatic Event?: Constraints from the Geochemistry and Google^(TM) Earth Image–ArcG IS^(TM) Studies of the Paleoproterozoic Mafic Dyke Swarms of the Eastern Dharwa

A precise dating of a mafic dyke of a swarm in shield areas has great advantage to identify Large Igneous Provinces(LIPs;short-lived,mantle-generated magmatic event)(Bryan and Ernst,2008;Ernst et al.,2010).Such

Mapping the Dyke Swarms Emplaced within the Different Archean Cratons of the Indian Shield Using Google^(TM) Earth Images and Arc GIS^(TM) Techniques

The Indian shield comprises a number of Archean–Paleoproterozoic cratonic blocks and predominantly Meso–Neoproterozoic mobile belts with Archean protoliths.All these ancient cratons were thought to be integral parts of

Paleomagnetic Data and Dyke Swarms Geometries – Important Tools for Precambrian Paleogeographic Reconstructions

There are only two quantitative tools for Precambrian paleogeographic reconstructions–paleomagnetic data and dyke swarms geometries.Paleomagnetic data provide information about paleolatitudes and orientation of rigid

The Geochemistry of Late Mesozoic Mafic Dyke Swarms in Fujian Province, Southeast China

Mafic dyke swarms is a special geologic terrain in continent,which can provide us abundant geodynamic information,mafic dyke swarms were an important symbol of the lithospheric extension,which were mainly derived