Fault Resilient Authentication Architecture for Drone Networks

Abstract

Wireless communication technology, partic-ularly in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, has advanced rapidly recently. However, owing to se-curity flaws, UAV-based applications have not reached their full potential. Interception of drone-based station communication is possible. Many authentication mechanisms, including Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF) based protocols, have been developed to address this problem. However, prior studies require noise-resistant and theoretically perfect PUF. This assumption restricts the usage of UAV-based authentication. This assumption limits the use-cases for UAV-based authentication systems. So we propose a novel distributed authentication approach based on Shamir's secret sharing that is resistant to noisy PUFs.