UAVs are being widely deployed in security and surveillance applications around the world. Due to deployment in remote environments and also due to limited resources on these devices, they are susceptible to device capture and physical tampering attacks. This heightens the risk of sensitive data stored in the UAVs to be captured by adversaries. To address this issue, a two-stage lightweight mutual authentication protocol is presented in this paper, well suited to SDN-backed multi UAV networks deployed in surveillance areas. Formal security proof of the protocol is presented to highlight its security features. We also compare our protocol with other state-of-the-art works in terms of computation latency and resilience against known security attacks.

无人机已广泛部署在全球的安全和监视应用程序中。由于部署在远程环境中以及这些设备上的资源有限，它们很容易受到设备捕获和物理篡改攻击的影响。这增加了存储在无人机中的敏感数据被对手捕获的风险。为了解决这个问题，本文提出了一种两阶段的轻量级相互认证协议，该协议非常适合部署在监视区域中的SDN支持的多无人机网络。给出了该协议的正式安全证明以突出其安全功能。在计算延迟和针对已知安全攻击的弹性方面，我们还将协议与其他最新技术进行了比较。