Blockchain-Enabled Computing Offloading and Resource Allocation in Multi-UAVs MEC Network: A Stackelberg Game Learning Approach

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology that can serve as aerial base stations to assist the Internet of Things (IoT) network and solve various problems, such as expanding network coverage, improving network performance, transmitting energy to IoT devices, and performing IoT compute-intensive tasks. However, due to the communication between UAVs and the migration of computing tasks, privacy and security during the computing offloading process are challenging issues. To this end, we design an air-to-air multi-UAVs MEC network system based on multi-coalition game, and introduce blockchain technology to ensure privacy and security between UAVs, effectively ensuring the security and confidentiality of computing offloading between UAVs. In this paper, the joint optimization problem of UAV channel selection, UAV location deployment, block processor decision, block processor transmission power, and block processor generation frequency is studied. The goal is to minimize the weighted average sum of energy consumption and delay for MEC task computing and blockchain task processing. To handle this intractable issue, the original problem is decomposed into two subproblems and solved alternately with each other. In addition, the Joint Convex Optimization and Stackelberg Game Hierarchical (JCSH) algorithm is proposed, which solves the problem of blockchain-enabled computing offloading and resource allocation. The simulation results show that the JCSH algorithm has better performance and stronger robustness compared to other algorithms under different parameter settings.