HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military and civilian systems access sensitive data via cellular networks and are ubiquitous. Therefore, the number of handovers may increase, and the process of sharing authentication keys between drones to new drones may be vulnerable to eavesdropping due to...
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| author | Khalid, Haqi Hashim, Shaiful Jahari Hashim, Fazirulhisyam Syed Ahamed, Sharifah Mumtazah Chaudhary, Muhammad Akmal Altarturi, Hamza H. M. Saadoon, Muntadher |
| author_facet | Khalid, Haqi Hashim, Shaiful Jahari Hashim, Fazirulhisyam Syed Ahamed, Sharifah Mumtazah Chaudhary, Muhammad Akmal Altarturi, Hamza H. M. Saadoon, Muntadher |
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| description | The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military and civilian systems access sensitive data via cellular networks and are ubiquitous. Therefore, the number of handovers may increase, and the process of sharing authentication keys between drones to new drones may be vulnerable to eavesdropping due to the wireless connectivity. For example, a UAV initially served by cell A may be handed over to cell B after a certain point. Therefore, Security and privacy concerns raise if there is a change in the flight path of the UAV due to wide-area connectivity traffic management, including authentication threats as well as the leakage of identity, location, and flying routes. Also, drones are resource-constrained devices that cannot perform extensive operations, leading to the inability to resist drone capture attacks and impersonation attacks. Therefore, this paper presents a high-performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol to secure the drone traveling path. The protocol utilizes the advantages of the AES-RSA algorithm to provide efficient and secure key management and a fast verification and signature generation that speeds up drone authentication. The protocol's security was proved using the formal verification ROR model and automated security verifier ProVerif tool to validate the protocol resistance against various attacks and provided forward secrecy. In addition, the performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated using the OMNeT++ simulator in terms of communication, computation cost, energy consumption, packet drop ratio, end-to-end delay, and throughput. The results showed that the protocol achieves better security, efficiency, and performance than other protocols. |
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| spelling | upm-1081912024-09-12T03:07:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/108191/ HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs Khalid, Haqi Hashim, Shaiful Jahari Hashim, Fazirulhisyam Syed Ahamed, Sharifah Mumtazah Chaudhary, Muhammad Akmal Altarturi, Hamza H. M. Saadoon, Muntadher The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military and civilian systems access sensitive data via cellular networks and are ubiquitous. Therefore, the number of handovers may increase, and the process of sharing authentication keys between drones to new drones may be vulnerable to eavesdropping due to the wireless connectivity. For example, a UAV initially served by cell A may be handed over to cell B after a certain point. Therefore, Security and privacy concerns raise if there is a change in the flight path of the UAV due to wide-area connectivity traffic management, including authentication threats as well as the leakage of identity, location, and flying routes. Also, drones are resource-constrained devices that cannot perform extensive operations, leading to the inability to resist drone capture attacks and impersonation attacks. Therefore, this paper presents a high-performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol to secure the drone traveling path. The protocol utilizes the advantages of the AES-RSA algorithm to provide efficient and secure key management and a fast verification and signature generation that speeds up drone authentication. The protocol's security was proved using the formal verification ROR model and automated security verifier ProVerif tool to validate the protocol resistance against various attacks and provided forward secrecy. In addition, the performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated using the OMNeT++ simulator in terms of communication, computation cost, energy consumption, packet drop ratio, end-to-end delay, and throughput. The results showed that the protocol achieves better security, efficiency, and performance than other protocols. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2023 Article PeerReviewed Khalid, Haqi and Hashim, Shaiful Jahari and Hashim, Fazirulhisyam and Syed Ahamed, Sharifah Mumtazah and Chaudhary, Muhammad Akmal and Altarturi, Hamza H. M. and Saadoon, Muntadher (2023) HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs. IEEE Transactions On Vehicular Technology, 72 (8). pp. 10906-10920. ISSN 0018-9545; ESSN: 1939-9359 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10082875/ 10.1109/tvt.2023.3262173 |
| spellingShingle | Khalid, Haqi Hashim, Shaiful Jahari Hashim, Fazirulhisyam Syed Ahamed, Sharifah Mumtazah Chaudhary, Muhammad Akmal Altarturi, Hamza H. M. Saadoon, Muntadher HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs |
| title | HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs |
| title_full | HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs |
| title_fullStr | HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs |
| title_full_unstemmed | HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs |
| title_short | HOOPOE: High performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone UAVs |
| title_sort | hoopoe: high performance and efficient anonymous handover authentication protocol for flying out of zone uavs |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/108191/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/108191/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/108191/ |