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MAC-Based Symmetric Key Protocol for Secure Traffic Forwarding in Drones

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Unmanned aerial vehicles have been deployed for surveillance in highly sensitive domains such as in the military. As such, the data exchanged between the operators and these aerial vehicles must be protected as any malicious access may lead to leakages and adversarial control of the drones. To achieve this, many schemes have been developed based on techniques such as blockchains, elliptic curve cryptography, dynamic keys, physically unclonable function, asymmetric and symmetric cryptography among others. However, majority of these protocols have been shown to be inefficient for deployment in this environment, while others have security holes that be exploited by attackers to cause mayhem in these networks. In this paper, a protocol that leverages on quadratic residues and Chinese remainder theorem is developed. Its security analysis shows that it offers mutual authentication, non-repudiation, unlinkability, identity privacy and traceability for misbehaving drones. It is also resilient against impersonation, forgery and replay attacks. In terms of performance, this protocol has the least execution time and relatively lower bandwidth requirements.

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This work is supported by Natural Science Foundation of Top Talent of SZTU (Grant number: 20211061010016) and National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62072064.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, College of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Basrah, Basrah, 61004, Iraq

    Zaid Ameen Abduljabbar, Mustafa S. Khalefa & Dhafer G. Honi

  2. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Institute, Shenzhen, 518118, China

    Zaid Ameen Abduljabbar

  3. Faculty of Biological and Physical Sciences, Tom Mboya University, Homabay, 40300, Kenya

    Vincent Omollo Nyangaresi

  4. College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, 518118, China

    Junchao Ma & Mustafa A. Al Sibahee

  5. Computer Technology Engineering Department, Iraq University College, Basrah, Iraq

    Mustafa A. Al Sibahee

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Abduljabbar, Z.A., Nyangaresi, V.O., Ma, J., Al Sibahee, M.A., Khalefa, M.S., Honi, D.G. (2022). MAC-Based Symmetric Key Protocol for Secure Traffic Forwarding in Drones. In: Perakovic, D., Knapcikova, L. (eds) Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures. FABULOUS 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 445. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15101-9_2

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