A New Scalable Mutual Authentication in Fog-Edge Drone Swarm Environment

Kyusuk Han; Eiman Al Nuaimi; Shamma Al Blooshi; Rafail Psiakis; Chan Yeob Yeun

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-21280-2_10

A New Scalable Mutual Authentication in Fog-Edge Drone Swarm Environment

Kyusuk Han
, Eiman Al Nuaimi
, Shamma Al Blooshi
, Rafail Psiakis
, Chan Yeob Yeun

Electrical Engineering

Technology Innovation Institute

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

6 Scopus citations

Abstract

A drone swarm is a preferable way in deploying drones for large-scale missions. In establishing drone swarms, secure communication between a fog drone and several edge drones is essential to mutually authenticate each other. Although many research works proposed the designs of mutual authentications, none of them meets the adequate security for the drone swarm environments, requiring either involvement of the ground station during the authentication process or expensive PKI-based crypto operations. Only a few works proposed more lightweight authentication, however, they are still vulnerable to key compromises in addition to the limited flexibility and scalability. In this work, we propose an efficient and scalable authentication protocol for fog-edge drone swarm environments, enabling mutual authentication between fog and edges without involving the ground station. We also show the design can leverage various hardware-assisted security functions. Protocol evaluations show security requirements satisfaction while achieving 14–20 times less computation overhead as compared to PKI-based models.

Original language	British English
Title of host publication	Information Security Practice and Experience - 17th International Conference, ISPEC 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Chunhua Su, Dimitris Gritzalis, Vincenzo Piuri
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	179-196
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Print)	9783031212796
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21280-2_10
State	Published - 2022
Event	17th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2022 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 23 Nov 2022 → 25 Nov 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13620 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2022
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	23/11/22 → 25/11/22

Keywords

Authentication
Drone Swarm
Fog-Edge
PUF
UAV

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Han, K., Nuaimi, E. A., Blooshi, S. A., Psiakis, R., & Yeun, C. Y. (2022). A New Scalable Mutual Authentication in Fog-Edge Drone Swarm Environment. In C. Su, D. Gritzalis, & V. Piuri (Eds.), Information Security Practice and Experience - 17th International Conference, ISPEC 2022, Proceedings (pp. 179-196). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13620 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21280-2_10

Han, Kyusuk ; Nuaimi, Eiman Al ; Blooshi, Shamma Al et al. / A New Scalable Mutual Authentication in Fog-Edge Drone Swarm Environment. Information Security Practice and Experience - 17th International Conference, ISPEC 2022, Proceedings. editor / Chunhua Su ; Dimitris Gritzalis ; Vincenzo Piuri. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 179-196 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Han, K, Nuaimi, EA, Blooshi, SA, Psiakis, R & Yeun, CY 2022, A New Scalable Mutual Authentication in Fog-Edge Drone Swarm Environment. in C Su, D Gritzalis & V Piuri (eds), Information Security Practice and Experience - 17th International Conference, ISPEC 2022, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13620 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 179-196, 17th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2022, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, 23/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21280-2_10

A New Scalable Mutual Authentication in Fog-Edge Drone Swarm Environment. / Han, Kyusuk; Nuaimi, Eiman Al; Blooshi, Shamma Al et al.
Information Security Practice and Experience - 17th International Conference, ISPEC 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Chunhua Su; Dimitris Gritzalis; Vincenzo Piuri. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 179-196 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13620 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Han K, Nuaimi EA, Blooshi SA, Psiakis R, Yeun CY. A New Scalable Mutual Authentication in Fog-Edge Drone Swarm Environment. In Su C, Gritzalis D, Piuri V, editors, Information Security Practice and Experience - 17th International Conference, ISPEC 2022, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2022. p. 179-196. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-21280-2_10

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