Authentication scheme for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based Internet of Vehicles networks

Abstract New and advanced technologies have introduced amazing areas like the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). These two technologies are emerged to facilitate the ground users by providing more fast and convenient data communication services. Due to the open nature of these networks, security and user privacy is always a serious concern. Different types of security attacks have been noticed in these networks like jamming attacks, global positioning system jamming, signal jamming, and data jamming. The existing solutions have been designed to resolve and tackle security issues such as authenticity, insurance of data integrity, provision of correct message authentication, and removal of redundant authentication. However, existing schemes have some limitations in terms of computational costs and efficiency and do not provide security at all levels. This paper proposes an Efficient Authentication Scheme for Safety Applications for Internet of Vehicles (EASSAIV) for message authentication. The proposed scheme can gather, process, and verify the information delivered to roadside units, UAVs, or to the vehicles and authenticate the received messages. Proposed scheme achieved better performance as compared to state of the art scheme in terms of safety, packet loss, delay and computational cost.