Design and Analysis of Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Securing IoD

The Internet-of-drones (IoD) environment is a layered network control architecture designed to maintain, coordinate, access, and drones (or Unmanned Aerial vehicles UAVs) facilitate drones’ navigation services. main entities in IoD are drones, ground station, external user. Before operationalizing drone IoD, infrastructure mandatory for securing its open channel (Flying Ad Hoc Networks FANETs). An attacker can easily capture data from the available use it their own purpose. Its protection challenging, as guarantees message integrity, non-repudiation, authenticity, authorization amongst all participants. Incredibly, without robust authentication protocol, task sensitive challenging one solve. This research focus on security of communication path between station solving noted vulnerabilities like stolen-verifier, privileged-insider attacks, outdated-data-transmission/design flaws often reported current protocols IoD. We proposed hash code/secure algorithmic (HMACSHA1) based robust, improved lightweight protocol has been verified formally using Random Oracle Model (ROM), ProVerif2.02 informally assumptions pragmatic illustration. performance evaluation proved that compared prior recommended implementation real-world environment.