TY - JOUR
T1 - Blockchain-Based Key Management for Heterogeneous Flying Ad Hoc Network
AU - Tan, Yawen
AU - Liu, Jiajia
AU - Kato, Nei
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 28, 2020; revised December 2, 2020; accepted December 27, 2020. Date of publication December 31, 2020; date of current version July 26, 2021. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61771374, Grant 61771373, Grant 61801360, Grant 61601357, and Grant 62001393, in part by the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi under Grant 2020JC-15 and Grant 2020JM-109, in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 3102019PY005, Grant 31020190QD040, and Grant 31020200QD010, in part by the Special Funds for Central Universities Construction of World-Class Universities (Disciplines) and Special Development Guidance under Grant 06390-20GH020114, and in part by the China 111 Project under Grant B16037. Paper no. TII-20-3618. (Corresponding author: Jiajia Liu.) Yawen Tan is with the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China (e-mail: yawentan_xd@foxmail.com).
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PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is recognized as one of the best sensing tools for gathering data in the industrial Internet of things sector. Besides, the flying ad hoc network (FANET) with multiple drones shows significant advantages in complicated task performing of large area. However, as an important part of communication security, key management for FANET currently depends heavily on the base station or infrastructures, which may easily become the attack target or increase the communication overheads of drones. Therefore, we propose a blockchain-based distributed key management scheme for heterogeneous FANET in this article, based on which drones can autonomously distribute cluster keys, update their public/private key pairs, migrate between clusters, and revoke malicious UAVs in a secure way. Security analysis and performance evaluation prove that our scheme can resist against a variety of external and internal attacks, and guarantee lightweight energy consumption for ordinary drones in the network.
AB - Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is recognized as one of the best sensing tools for gathering data in the industrial Internet of things sector. Besides, the flying ad hoc network (FANET) with multiple drones shows significant advantages in complicated task performing of large area. However, as an important part of communication security, key management for FANET currently depends heavily on the base station or infrastructures, which may easily become the attack target or increase the communication overheads of drones. Therefore, we propose a blockchain-based distributed key management scheme for heterogeneous FANET in this article, based on which drones can autonomously distribute cluster keys, update their public/private key pairs, migrate between clusters, and revoke malicious UAVs in a secure way. Security analysis and performance evaluation prove that our scheme can resist against a variety of external and internal attacks, and guarantee lightweight energy consumption for ordinary drones in the network.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Flying ad hoc network (FANET)
KW - Key management
KW - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
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U2 - 10.1109/TII.2020.3048398
DO - 10.1109/TII.2020.3048398
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099096499
SN - 1551-3203
VL - 17
SP - 7629
EP - 7638
JO - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IS - 11
M1 - 9311800
ER -
