Amassing the Security: An ECC-Based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones

Hussain, Sajid; Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf; Alomari, Osama Ahmad; Alsharif, Mohammed H.; Khan, Muhammad Khurram; Kumar, Neeraj

doi:10.1109/jsyst.2021.3057047

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“…Ground station allows and communicates with drones using FANET for real time condition monitoring like wild-life/forest fire surveillance, troop's movement, weather-forecasting, and war-fear battle field deployment. Certificate authority (CA) is a fully trusted entity which can issue/cancel certificate to/from both ground station and drone or user [9][10].…”

Section: A System Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design and Analysis of Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Securing IoD

2021

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The Internet-of-drones (IoD) environment is a layered network control architecture designed to maintain, coordinate, access, and control drones (or Unmanned Aerial vehicles UAVs) and facilitate drones' navigation services. The main entities in IoD are drones, ground station, and external user. Before operationalizing a drone in IoD, a control infrastructure is mandatory for securing its open network channel (Flying Ad Hoc Networks FANETs). An attacker can easily capture data from the available network channel and use it for their own purpose. Its protection is challenging, as it guarantees message integrity, non-repudiation, authenticity, and authorization amongst all the participants. Incredibly, without a robust authentication protocol, the task is sensitive and challenging one to solve. This research focus on the security of the communication path between drone and ground station and solving the noted vulnerabilities like stolen-verifier, privileged-insider attacks, and outdated-data-transmission/design flaws often reported in the current authentication protocols for IoD. We proposed a hash message authentication code/secure hash algorithmic (HMACSHA1) based robust, improved and lightweight authentication protocol for securing IoD. Its security has been verified formally using Random Oracle Model (ROM), ProVerif2.02 and informally using assumptions and pragmatic illustration. The performance evaluation proved that the proposed protocol is lightweight compared to prior protocols and recommended for implementation in the real-world IoD environment.

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“…This model was first presented by Dolev & Yao [12] and is called Dolev-Yao Model. Used by various protocols [9,10,47], this model tells the authority of an attacker between two communicating bodies through an open network channel. The threat model consists of the following possibilities with an adversary:…”

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Design and Analysis of Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Securing IoD

2021

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“…We can also test the security of the identity-based aggregate signature-based authentication protocol by another widely used method [51] used by different researchers like [27,48,54], which consists of two entities, an adversary and a responder ꭆ. established communication with AC2P, let Ei denotes AC2P, whereas i indicated the i th occurrence of AC2P. Whereas EDS means adversary action to impersonate AC2P or PICS or Drone by forging (M, Ϭ), ESD forges s or n, a, r, b, pram={h1, h2, h3, h4, P, G2, Ppub) for impersonating any participant and ESC is considered to be an action of the adversary for semantic security of the proposed mechanism is given as under: i.…”

Section: Real-or-random (Ror) Model Analysismentioning

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Identity and Aggregate Signature-Based Authentication Protocol for IoD Deployment Military Drone

Jan

Khan²

2021

IEEE Access

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With the rapid miniaturization in sensor technology, ruddervator, arduino, and multi-rotor system, drone technology catches much attention of the researchers. It can be controlled remotely by a seated operator sitting to a powerful intelligence computer system (PICS) or an airborne control and command platform (AC2P). The two types of drones (reconnaissance and attacking) can communicate with each other and with the PICS or AC2P through wireless network channels referred to as Flying Ad Hoc Network or Unmanned Aerial Vehicular Network (FANET or UAVN). When the line of sight is broken, communication is mainly carried out through satellite using GPS (Global Positioning System) signals. Both GPS and UAVN/FANET use open network channels for data broadcasting, exposed to several threats, and its security is challenging for the researchers. Monitoring data transmission traffic, espionage, troop movement, border surveillance, searching and warfare battlefield phenomenon, etc., can auspiciously be achieved by developing a robust authentication scheme for IoD deployment military drone. Therefore, this research illustrates the designing of two separate protocols based on aggregate signature, identity, pairing cryptography, and Computational Diffie-Hellman Problem (CDHP) to guarantee data integrity, authorization, and confidentiality among drones and AC2P/PICS. The outdated data transmission flaw has also been tackled, which is frequently noted in prior protocols. The security of these protocols will formally be verified using a random oracle model (ROM), a real-or-random (ROR) model, and informally using pragmatic illustration and mathematical lemmas. Nonetheless, the performance analysis section will be executed using the algorithmic big-O notation. The results show that these protocols are verifiably protected in the Random Oracle Model (ROM) and Real-Or-Random (ROR) model using the CDHP.

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“…In 2019, Wazid et al [23] also proposed a new protocol for securing user-UAV communication through symmetric key primitives. As debated by Hussain et al [3], Wazid et al's scheme is weak against stolen verifier-based forgery of users, UAVs, and trusted control centers. e scheme of Wazid et al also lacks untraceability.…”

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“…e UAVs can enhance quality of life and can be deployed at remote and inaccessible locations like depths and mountain peaks. In contrast to traditional roadways, the UAV/drone can reach inaccessible locations in a very speedy manner [1][2][3]. Moreover, in many emergency-like situations, the traditional transportation and surveillance could not respond in a rapid way and the slow response can cause irreparable losses like lives.…”

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A Resource-Friendly Authentication Protocol for UAV-Based Massive Crowd Management Systems

Alzahrani

Barnawi

Chaudhry

2021

Security and Communication Networks

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As a part of the smart city revolution, crowd management is an emerging trend and it can enhance the quality of life. Unmanned ariel vehicles (UAVs) can help in making the crowd management process more efficient and more accurate. UAVs can monitor and collect environmental-related surveillance data and share real-time information with each other and with the decision makers. However, the battery-operated UAVs communicate over the open public channel making the privacy and security of the UAVs a crucial element in mission-critical applications. The weaknesses of the existing scheme pave the way to design a new lightweight authentication scheme for UAV environments. In this article, we present a symmetric key primitive-based scheme and provide authentication among a user and a UAV through an intermediate control center. Due to usage of symmetric key and elliptic curve cryptography, the proposed scheme fulfils the performance requirements of the UAVs. The security of the proposed scheme is substantiated through BAN logic, along with a discussion on security features extended by the proposed scheme. The performance and security comparisons show that the proposed scheme provides adequate security and efficiency and can be practically deployed in real UAV environments.

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Amassing the Security: An ECC-Based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones

Cited by 85 publications

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Design and Analysis of Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Securing IoD

Design and Analysis of Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Securing IoD

Identity and Aggregate Signature-Based Authentication Protocol for IoD Deployment Military Drone

A Resource-Friendly Authentication Protocol for UAV-Based Massive Crowd Management Systems

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