TY - GEN
T1 - Cross-domain authentication for 5G-enabled UAVs
T2 - 4th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond, DroneCom 2021
AU - Liu, Bin
AU - Yu, Keping
AU - Feng, Chaosheng
AU - Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/10/29
Y1 - 2021/10/29
N2 - While 5G facilitates high-speed Internet access and makes over-the-horizon control a reality for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there are also potential security and privacy considerations, for example, authentication among drones. The centralized authentication approaches not only suffer from a single point of failure, but they are also incapable of cross-domain authentication, which complicates the cooperation of drones from different domains. To address these challenges, we propose a blockchain-based solution to achieve cross-domain authentication for 5G-enabled UAVs. Our approach employs multiple signatures based on threshold sharing to build an identity federation for collaborative domains. Reliable communication between cross-domain devices is achieved by utilizing smart contract for authentication. Our performance evaluations show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed scheme.
AB - While 5G facilitates high-speed Internet access and makes over-the-horizon control a reality for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there are also potential security and privacy considerations, for example, authentication among drones. The centralized authentication approaches not only suffer from a single point of failure, but they are also incapable of cross-domain authentication, which complicates the cooperation of drones from different domains. To address these challenges, we propose a blockchain-based solution to achieve cross-domain authentication for 5G-enabled UAVs. Our approach employs multiple signatures based on threshold sharing to build an identity federation for collaborative domains. Reliable communication between cross-domain devices is achieved by utilizing smart contract for authentication. Our performance evaluations show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed scheme.
KW - 5G-enabled UAVs
KW - blockchain
KW - cross-domain authentication
KW - distributed collaboration
KW - smart contract
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U2 - 10.1145/3477090.3481053
DO - 10.1145/3477090.3481053
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118583105
T3 - DroneCom 2021 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond
SP - 25
EP - 30
BT - DroneCom 2021 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 29 October 2021
ER -