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.


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    Title :

    Secure Remote Control for Multi-UAV Systems: a Physical Layer Security Perspective


    Contributors:
    Chen, Yichao (author) / Liu, Guanbang (author) / Zhang, Zhen (author) / He, Lidong (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-10-28


    Size :

    363413 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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