BASUV: A Blockchain-Enabled UAV Authentication Scheme for Internet of Vehicles

【Author】 Xie, Mingyue; Chang, Zheng; Li, Hongwei; Min, Geyong

【Source】IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY

【影响因子】7.231

【Abstract】Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as pivotal roles within internet of vehicles (IoV), serving as mobile base stations. However, while expanding coverage and improving mobility, the deployment of UAVs also poses a threat to the integrity and privacy of sensitive data due to open wireless communication channels in IoV. Therefore, preventing unauthorized access and data tampering is critically important between UAVs and vehicles. For the authenticity and legitimacy of the UAV certificate, existing authentication approaches may lead to significant challenges in key management overhead or dependence on a trusted third party. In this paper, a blockchain-based authentication scheme for UAV-assisted IoV system (BASUV) is proposed. This solution enables dependable UAV registration and authentication services, and permits the dynamic addition and removal. Specifically, blockchain is introduced to achieve the decentralized management and distributed trust of the UAV certificate ledger. Furthermore, to prevent information tampering and identity deception, we design CMPES, a novel combined scheme based on multiple public key generators (PKGs) for encryption and signature. Identical key pair in encryption and signature can reduce key generation and management overhead. The security and experimental analysis demonstrates the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed scheme.

【Keywords】Autonomous aerial vehicles; Blockchains; Security; Public key; Wireless communication; Smart contracts; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network; blockchain; authentication; Internet of Vehicles (IoV); Internet of Vehicles (IoV)

【发表时间】2024

【收录时间】2024-10-17

【文献类型】实验仿真

【主题类别】

区块链应用-实体经济-身份验证