Design of protection mechanisms for the Internet of Drones

• Autor(a) principal: Alisson Renan Svaigen
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/68887; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2969-554X
• topic: Internet of drones; Security; Privacy; Protection mechanisms; Computação – Teses; Aeronave não tripulada – Teses; Internet - Medidas de segurança; Direito a privacidade – Teses

In the last years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a.k.a. drones, has grown immensely, evolving from single-UAV services to collaborative domains. Hence, the Internet of Drones (IoD) emerged as a novel mobile network paradigm focused on the air-to-ground integration of drones, coordinating the access of drones to controlled airspace and providing a robust communication environment to the aerial and ground nodes. Likewise in traditional mobile networks, security and privacy are major requirements to be ensured. IoD is a unique mobile environment with particular characteristics, differing from the traditional paradigms. Hence, the existent protection mechanisms may not be adequate to ensure a proper level of security and privacy in IoD. These aspects lead to two important research questions: (i) Can the current protection mechanisms provide the same protection level to IoD when compared to the traditional mobile networks? (ii) If they can not, is it possible to adapt them to be applied in IoD? Bearing these challenges in mind, the main goal of this dissertation is to study the design of protection mechanisms for the IoD considering its particular characteristics. Apart from that, we conduct a thorough study regarding the main concepts of IoD and its relationship with other networks, what are the attacks that threaten this environment, what are the existent protection mechanisms, and how these mechanisms mitigate the attacks. This study reveals a need to enhance the existent protection mechanisms to meet the IoD characteristics since most of them can not offer the same protection level or even not be applied. Hence, we propose a framework to guide the design of IoD-based protection mechanisms. Following this framework, we advance the state of the art in three fronts: (i) we design three novel IoD-related Location Privacy Protection Mechanisms (LPPMs), also designing a framework to apply them cooperatively; (ii) we design an Anti-Jamming mechanism for IoD, being the first mechanism that mitigates the effects of Jamming Attacks in an aerial environment with restricted available airspace; (iii) and we introduce a new approach to automatically identify drones in the environment from different sources, based on the dissimilarity concept. Summarily, our contributions significantly enhanced the security/privacy levels of the IoD facing the existent solutions, considering a pool of related metrics. Finally, the contributions of this study make room for the design of novel protection mechanisms systematically, enhancing the IoD security and privacy levels.