Date of Award
12-2024
Degree Type
Honors College Thesis
Academic Program
Computer Engineering BS
Department
Computing
First Advisor
Ahmed Sherif, Ph.D.
Advisor Department
Computing
Abstract
The Internet of Drones (IoD) proliferation has catalyzed transformative changes across various industries, from agriculture to urban management. However, expanding drone networks also presents significant security challenges concerning secure communication and authentication. This paper introduces a robust privacy-preserving key-based authentication scheme tailored explicitly for the IoD, utilizing a matrix key generated by Hierarchical Message Authentication Codes (HMAC) and the SHA-256 algorithm to address these vulnerabilities. Our system enhances security by ensuring each drone in the network can authenticate securely and reliably with a central unit, preventing unauthorized access and securing communications against common threats like eavesdropping and impersonation attacks. Our security and privacy evaluation shows that our scheme can achieve the design goals. Additionally, our performance evaluation shows that our scheme has low computation and communication overheads compared with the existing techniques.
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Recommended Citation
Chaudhary, Zain, "Dynamic Key-Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones" (2024). Honors Theses. 993.
https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/993