Lightweight Quantum-Resistant Key Exchange for UAV Swarm Networks: A Comprehensive Analysis with Real-World Considerations

This dataset supports the study “Lightweight Quantum-Resistant Key Exchange for UAV Swarm Networks: A Comprehensive Analysis with Real-World Considerations.” It contains experimental and simulation results for evaluating PQCKE, a lightweight post-quantum group key establishment architecture for dynamic UAV swarms. The dataset includes per-run measurements of swarm configuration, node density, mobility, wireless interference and congestion, cryptographic scheme and key parameters, latency, packet delivery ratio, packet loss, throughput reduction, retransmissions, energy consumption, memory footprint, protocol-stage timing, leader-election and consensus behavior, and security-related indicators such as attack success, machine-learning classifier performance, side-channel leakage metrics, compromised nodes, and network functionality. It is intended to support reproducibility, independent analysis, and comparison of post-quantum and classical key-exchange approaches under realistic UAV swarm conditions. The accompanying code and configuration files enable regeneration of the reported figures, tables, and aggregate performance metrics.