Abstract
The Internet of Drones (IoD) provides the coordinated access to controlled airspace for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (called drones). The on-going cheaper costs of sensors and processors, and also wireless connectivity make it feasible to use the drones for several applications ranging from military to civilian. Since most of the applications using the drones involved in the IoD are real-time based applications, the users (external parties) usually have their interest in getting the real-time services from the deployed drones belonging to a particular fly zone. To address this important issue in the IoD, there is a great need of an efficient and secure user authentication approach in which an authorized user (for example, a driver of an ambulance) in the IoD environment can be given access to the data directly from an accessed drone. In this article, we first discuss an authentication model used in the IoD communication. We then discuss some security challenges and requirements for the IoD environment. A taxonomy of various security protocols in the IoD environment is also discussed. We then emphasis on the study of some recently proposed user authentication schemes for the IoD communication. A detailed comparative study is done based on functionality features, security attacks, and also communication and computation costs. Through the rigorous comparative study of the existing schemes, we identify the strengths and weaknesses of the user authentication schemes for the IoD communication. Finally, we identify some of the challenges for the IoD that need to be addressed in the coming future.
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The work of J.-H. Lee was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2017R1A1A1A05001405). This work of A. K. Das was also supported by the Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Phase II Project, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), India. We thank the anonymous experts of the field for their valuable comments which helped us to improve the content, quality, and presentation of this paper.
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Wazid, M., Das, A.K. & Lee, JH. Authentication protocols for the internet of drones: taxonomy, analysis and future directions. J Ambient Intell Human Comput (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-018-1006-x
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