TY - JOUR
T1 - Blockchain-Enabled Trustworthy Group Communications in UAV Networks
AU - Gai, Keke
AU - Wu, Yulu
AU - Zhu, Liehuang
AU - Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond
AU - Xiao, Bin
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received January 29, 2020; revised June 1, 2020; accepted July 15, 2020. Date of publication August 31, 2020; date of current version July 12, 2021. This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality under Grant 4202068, in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61972034, in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under Grant ZR2019ZD10, in part by the HK RGC GRF PolyU under Grant 15216220, in part by the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security under Grant GCIS201803, and in part by the Henan Key Laboratory of Network Cryptography Technology under Grant LNCT2019-A08. The work of Keke Gai was supported by the Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars. The work of Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo was supported in part by the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship. The Associate Editor for this article was S. Mumtaz. (Corresponding author: Liehuang Zhu.) Keke Gai, Yulu Wu, and Liehuang Zhu are with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2000-2011 IEEE.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in networked environments, such as places of mass gatherings, smart cities and smart nations. For example, UAVs can be deployed to detect violations of lockdown, stay-at-home or social/physical distancing directives during pandemics (e.g. COVID-19). There are, however, security and privacy considerations in such deployments. To achieve secure and efficient authentication of UAVs, solutions such as those based on Point-to-Point (P2P) or a Point-to-Multipoint (P2M) communications have been proposed in the literature. In this article, we present a novel blockchain-based technique to support multi-party authentication to facilitate trustworthy group communications. Specifically, this allows us to provide secure P2P wireless communications and trusted group communication management for UAV networks, while ensuring service efficiency. Evaluation findings from both real-world implementation and simulations demonstrate the utility of the proposed approach.
AB - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in networked environments, such as places of mass gatherings, smart cities and smart nations. For example, UAVs can be deployed to detect violations of lockdown, stay-at-home or social/physical distancing directives during pandemics (e.g. COVID-19). There are, however, security and privacy considerations in such deployments. To achieve secure and efficient authentication of UAVs, solutions such as those based on Point-to-Point (P2P) or a Point-to-Multipoint (P2M) communications have been proposed in the literature. In this article, we present a novel blockchain-based technique to support multi-party authentication to facilitate trustworthy group communications. Specifically, this allows us to provide secure P2P wireless communications and trusted group communication management for UAV networks, while ensuring service efficiency. Evaluation findings from both real-world implementation and simulations demonstrate the utility of the proposed approach.
KW - Blockchain
KW - trustworthy group communication
KW - unmanned aerial vehicle network
KW - wireless communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85110901821&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TITS.2020.3015862
DO - 10.1109/TITS.2020.3015862
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85110901821
SN - 1524-9050
VL - 22
SP - 4118
EP - 4130
JO - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IS - 7
M1 - 9181478
ER -
