Identity Management and Authentication of a UAV Swarm Based on a Blockchain
In recent years, with the continuous development of UAV technology, the application of the UAV swarm in the military has been a global focus of research. Although it can bring a series of benefits in autonomous cooperation, the traditional UAV management technology is prone to hacker attacks due to...
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| description | In recent years, with the continuous development of UAV technology, the application of the UAV swarm in the military has been a global focus of research. Although it can bring a series of benefits in autonomous cooperation, the traditional UAV management technology is prone to hacker attacks due to many security issues, such as a single point of failure brought by centralized management and the lack of reliable identity authentication. This paper studies the advantages and the recent advances of the blockchain in UAV swarm, proposes a blockchain-based UAV swarm identity management model (B-UIM-M), and establishes a distributed identity authentication scheme based on the distributed identity identifier (DID) under this model. Moreover, to ensure the safe transmission of UAV communication data, a secure communication architecture based on blockchain and a set of secure transmission protocols were designed, combined with cryptography. In the current military field, there is no similar application case of the UAV swarm identity management model and distributed identity authentication. The feasibility and security of the proposed scheme are proved through experiments and security analyses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-481a7118779b4d95a64c5fda72fcef9c2023-11-23T22:46:06ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172022-10-0112201052410.3390/app122010524Identity Management and Authentication of a UAV Swarm Based on a BlockchainPengbin Han0Aina Sui1Jiang Wu2School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Communication University of China, Beijing 100024, ChinaSchool of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Communication University of China, Beijing 100024, ChinaSchool of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaIn recent years, with the continuous development of UAV technology, the application of the UAV swarm in the military has been a global focus of research. Although it can bring a series of benefits in autonomous cooperation, the traditional UAV management technology is prone to hacker attacks due to many security issues, such as a single point of failure brought by centralized management and the lack of reliable identity authentication. This paper studies the advantages and the recent advances of the blockchain in UAV swarm, proposes a blockchain-based UAV swarm identity management model (B-UIM-M), and establishes a distributed identity authentication scheme based on the distributed identity identifier (DID) under this model. Moreover, to ensure the safe transmission of UAV communication data, a secure communication architecture based on blockchain and a set of secure transmission protocols were designed, combined with cryptography. In the current military field, there is no similar application case of the UAV swarm identity management model and distributed identity authentication. The feasibility and security of the proposed scheme are proved through experiments and security analyses.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/20/10524blockchainUAV swarmidentity managementsecure communicationdistributed identity authentication |
| spellingShingle | Pengbin Han Aina Sui Jiang Wu Identity Management and Authentication of a UAV Swarm Based on a Blockchain Applied Sciences blockchain UAV swarm identity management secure communication distributed identity authentication |
| title | Identity Management and Authentication of a UAV Swarm Based on a Blockchain |
| title_full | Identity Management and Authentication of a UAV Swarm Based on a Blockchain |
| title_fullStr | Identity Management and Authentication of a UAV Swarm Based on a Blockchain |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identity Management and Authentication of a UAV Swarm Based on a Blockchain |
| title_short | Identity Management and Authentication of a UAV Swarm Based on a Blockchain |
| title_sort | identity management and authentication of a uav swarm based on a blockchain |
| topic | blockchain UAV swarm identity management secure communication distributed identity authentication |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/20/10524 |
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