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A New Cyber Security Framework Towards Secure Data Communication for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

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Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) like UAVs are used for mission critical tasks including military and civilian operations. Their potentiality of usage is rapidly increasing in commercial space. The need for a secure channel to wirelessly communicate and transfer message between CPS is very crucial. Key idea behind this study is to propose a novel framework that is lightweight, robust and at the same time do not compromise security and pragmatic in the jurisdictions of energy-efficient atmospheres. This paper presents an idea for a practical and efficient hierarchical architecture for UAV network using identity-based encryption. Also, proposes selective encryption technique to reduce overheads and data hiding mechanism to increase confidentiality of the message.

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    Md Samsul Haque & Morshed U. Chowdhury

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  2. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

    Ali Ghorbani

  3. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA

    Kui Ren

  4. Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Sencun Zhu

  5. Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China

    Aiqing Zhang

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Haque, M.S., Chowdhury, M.U. (2018). A New Cyber Security Framework Towards Secure Data Communication for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). In: Lin, X., Ghorbani, A., Ren, K., Zhu, S., Zhang, A. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 239. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78816-6_9

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