RT Journal Article
T1 Security in networks of unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance with an agent-based approach inspired by the principles of blockchain
A1 Lacuesta, Raquel
A1 Rajarajan, Muttukrishnan
A1 Lloret, Jaime
A1 García-Magariño García, Iván
AB Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can support surveillance even in areas without network infrastructure. However, UAV networks raise security challenges because of its dynamic topology. This paper proposes a technique for maintaining security in UAV networks in the context of surveillance, by corroborating information about events from different sources. In this way, UAV networks can conform peer-to-peer information inspired by the principles of blockchain, and detect compromised UAVs based on trust policies. The proposed technique uses a secure asymmetric encryption with a pre-shared list of official UAVs. Using this technique, the wrong information can be detected when an official UAV is physically hijacked. The novel agent based simulator ABS-SecurityUAV is used to validate the proposed approach. In our experiments, around 90% of UAVs were able to corroborate information about a person walking in a controlled area, while none of the UAVs corroborated fake information coming from a hijacked UAV.
PB Elsevier
YR 2019
FD 2019-04-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112745
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112745
LA eng
NO García-Magariño, I., Lacuesta, R., Rajarajan, M., & Lloret, J. (2019). Security in networks of unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance with an agent-based approach inspired by the principles of blockchain. Ad Hoc Networks, 86, 72-82
NO Foundation Ibercaja
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 abr 2025