Majority Voting-based Consensus Mechanism for UAVs Decision Making in Battlefield.

The revolutionary and rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has significantly contributed to modernizing military operations by improving the long-range communication and information sharing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the battlefield. However, efficient decision-making between clusters of UAVs controlled by the controller station (CS) is still one of the critical aspects that can cause potential threats to the armed forces on the battlefield. Thus, we have proposed a majority voting-based mechanism to attain consensus decision-making for UAVs, i.e., followers, monitored by the CS (leader) on the battlefield. Furthermore, we have focused on various voting scenarios to choose the efficient decision (attack or retreat) for the armed forces without any conflict between leader and follower utilizing the majority voting mechanism. Finally, the performance evaluation of the proposed mechanism is analyzed and simulated using the performance metrics of consensus delay and throughput.