TY - GEN
T1 - BETA-UAV
T2 - 22nd IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology, ICCT 2022
AU - Hafeez, Sana
AU - Shawky, Mahmoud A.
AU - Al-Quraan, Mohammad
AU - Mohjazi, Lina
AU - Imran, Muhammad Ali
AU - Sun, Yao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), an emerging architecture that embodies flying ad-hoc networks, face critical privacy and security challenges, mainly when engaged in data-sensitive missions. Therefore, message authentication is a crucial security feature for drone communication. This paper presents a Blockchain-based Efficient, and Trusted Authentication scheme for UAV communication BETA-UAV, which exploits the inherent properties of blockchain technology concerning memorability and immutable to record communication sessions via transaction using a smart contract. The smart contract in BETA-UAV allows participants to publish and call transactions from the blockchain network. Furthermore, the transaction addresses are proof of freshness and trustworthiness for subsequent transmissions. Furthermore, we investigate the ability to resist active attacks, e.g., impersonation, replaying, and modification. In addition, we evaluate the gas costs associated with the smart contract's functions by implementing BETA-UAV on the Ethereum public blockchain. Comparing computation and communication over-heads shows that the proposed approach can save significant costs over traditional techniques.
AB - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), an emerging architecture that embodies flying ad-hoc networks, face critical privacy and security challenges, mainly when engaged in data-sensitive missions. Therefore, message authentication is a crucial security feature for drone communication. This paper presents a Blockchain-based Efficient, and Trusted Authentication scheme for UAV communication BETA-UAV, which exploits the inherent properties of blockchain technology concerning memorability and immutable to record communication sessions via transaction using a smart contract. The smart contract in BETA-UAV allows participants to publish and call transactions from the blockchain network. Furthermore, the transaction addresses are proof of freshness and trustworthiness for subsequent transmissions. Furthermore, we investigate the ability to resist active attacks, e.g., impersonation, replaying, and modification. In addition, we evaluate the gas costs associated with the smart contract's functions by implementing BETA-UAV on the Ethereum public blockchain. Comparing computation and communication over-heads shows that the proposed approach can save significant costs over traditional techniques.
KW - Authentication
KW - Blockchain
KW - PKI-based authentication
KW - Smart contract
KW - UAV
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85152292362
U2 - 10.1109/ICCT56141.2022.10072981
DO - 10.1109/ICCT56141.2022.10072981
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85152292362
T3 - International Conference on Communication Technology Proceedings, ICCT
SP - 613
EP - 617
BT - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Communication Technology, ICCT 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 11 November 2022 through 14 November 2022
ER -