A Secured Internet of Drone Model with Distributed Protocols

Abstract

With the increasing demand in drone technology, Internet-of-drones (IoD) has attracted researchers to contribute multiple benefits for various military and civilian applications. Providing security in a distributed IoD environment is highly challenging due to its inherent open characteristics in radio channels. Nevertheless. communication through such insecure transmission paths in unattended drone applications make it highly vulnerable to privacy and security issues. The proposed work focuses on providing a secured communication path between ground stations and Unmanned Aerial vehicles UAVs (drones) by mitigating inherent vulnerabilities. A hash based cryptographic algorithm is presented through different phases for the registration and key agreement of IoD nodes. A simulation environment is set up using OMNeT++ with a decentralised IoD paradigm to evaluate the proposed protocol. The performance analysis hence proved that the presented protocol provides an efficient secure transmission path for real time UAV applications.