ENHANCING DRONE COMMUNICATION SECURITY: IMPLEMENTING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL IN THE IOD ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The use of drones has become unprecedented in recent days. They are integrated to assist in the operation and execution of difficult in several domains. For safer communications, the drones are used within the concept of Internet of Drones (IoD). This study attempts to offer a robust and authentication guide for drones; they are used with the assistance of python programming language. The assumed protocol leverages of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in consonance with the advanced key managing processes to obtain lightweight and maximum security in communication. The obtained result for the simulation displays that the protocol outperforms essentially and the current procedures reaching a detection value of 0.904, an energy usage of only 0.27 millijoules, and a inactivity of 61.54 milliseconds. In addition, the protocol indicates potent resilience to normal cyber-attacks minimizing the success rate in Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks to 2.3% and Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks to 0.8%. numerical analysis through the use of ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD tests affirms these developments are numerically significant with (p < 0.001) in comparison with the present protocols. These results highlight the possibility of using modern cryptographic approach with smart protocol plan to improve the security of drone communications in IoD domains.