Semi-Decentralized Model for Drone Collaboration on Secure Measurement of Positions

Mostefa Kara, Abdelkader Laouid, Ahcene Bounceur, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Muath Alshaikh, Romaissa Kebache

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Abstract

The importance of drone use is increasing in all fields due to several characteristics and advantages they provide, such as saving lives, quality imaging, and being easily controllable. In addition, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) prices are going to decrease, this has contributed greatly to an increase in demand for them. However, many challenges face the widespread use of UAVs. One of the most important challenges is his vulnerability to hacking. This paper presents a semi-decentralized collaboration model for the secure measurement of drone positions. The proposed model is based on choosing a leader for each specified period of time by a lightweight consensus algorithm. The leader gets his position using satellites, other drone team members are based on the leader's safe position to find their locations in a way that is immune to GPS spoofing. Our proposal study shows the extent of the security level it provides against spoofing attacks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICFNDS 2021 - 5th International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems
Subtitle of host publicationThe Premier Conference on Smart Next Generation Networking Technologies
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages64-69
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450387347
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Dec 2021
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

  • Consensus
  • Data Collection.
  • Drone
  • Secure communication
  • UAV

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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