| Title | Secure Remote Control for Multi-UAV Systems: a Physical Layer Security Perspective |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2022 |
| Authors | Chen, Yichao, Liu, Guanbang, Zhang, Zhen, He, Lidong |
| Conference Name | 2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS) |
| Date Published | oct |
| Keywords | autonomous aerial vehicles, Collaboration, control systems, energy consumption, friendly jamming, G2A communication, Human Behavior, human factors, Market research, multi-UAV, physical layer security, policy governance, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Robot Operating System, security, smart attack, Software |
| Abstract | Using multi-UAV systems to accomplish both civil and military missions is becoming a popular trend. With the development of software and hardware technologies, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now able to operate autonomously at edge. However, the remote control of manned systems, e.g., ground control station (GCS), remains essential to mission success, and the system's control and non-payload communication (CNPC) are facing severe cyber threats caused by smart attacks. To avoid hijacking, in this paper, we propose a secure mechanism that reduces such security risks for multi-UAV systems. We introduce friendly jamming from UAVs to block eavesdropping on the remote control channel. The trade-off between security and energy consumption is optimized by three approaches designed for UAV and GCS under algorithms of different complexities. Numerical results show the approach efficiency under different mission conditions and security demands, and demonstrate the features of the proposed mechanism for various scenarios. |
| Notes | ISSN: 2771-7372 |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986826 |
| Citation Key | chen_secure_2022 |
Secure Remote Control for Multi-UAV Systems: a Physical Layer Security Perspective