Access Management using Vickrey-Clarke-Groves Auction in Terrestrial-Drone Networks

With advances in technology, the amount of data used per user has increased, and traditional ground base stations often fail to meet the needs of user terminals. In this paper, a lack of data transmission resources in the terrestrial network is solved by DBSs (drone base stations). In the suggested model, MBSs (macrocell base stations) are used to provide resources for backhaul connectivity to DBSs. DBSs (drone base stations) provide downlink connectivity to user terminals whose demand cannot be satisfied by terrestrial SBSs (small cell base stations). To accomplish optimal allocation between supply and demand of data transmission resources, several research results based on competitive market settings have been introduced. However, security, privacy, and trust guaranteed issues are not actively discussed in the results. Data transmission resources are allocated by the resource-demanding objects. If resource-demanding objects report manipulated malicious information for their own interest to obtain more resources, the whole resource allocation system can be vulnerable due to the selfish resource-demanding objects. This paper represents a novel algorithm that guarantees the trustfulness of resource-demanding objects. Vickrey-Clarke -Groves auction-based trust guaranteed algorithm is proposed for data transmission resource allocation between DBSs and user terminals through access links. In the VCG auction-based mechanism, DBSs (auctioneers) provide QOS (quality of service) to user terminals that their demand is not satisfied by the surrounding SBSs (bidders).