Cyber Security and forensics for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) pose unique requirements, solutions, and challenges. As UAVs become increasingly prevalent for legitimate and illegal use, ensuring their security and data integrity is important. Solut...
This work formulates and solves the actual problem of studying the logistics of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations in facility security planning. The study is related to security tasks, including perimeter control, infrastructure condition moni...
The employment of unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as UAVs, is expanding rapidly across various civil application areas. Some of these domains include real-time tracking, the provision of wireless coverage, sensing, searches and rescue, the deliv...
Developments in drones have opened new trends and opportunities in different fields, particularly in small drones. Drones provide interlocation services for navigation, and this interlink is provided by the Internet of Things (IoT). However, architec...
Recently, owing to the high mobility and low cost of drones, drone-based delivery systems have shown considerable potential for ensuring flexible and reliable parcel delivery. Several crucial design issues must be considered to design such systems, i...
Drones offer significant safety and security advantages by enhancing situational awareness across various fields. However, realizing these benefits hinges on well-designed drone systems. This study builds upon previous research on drone deployment ch...
Nowadays, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones in agriculture for crop assessment and monitoring is a timely and important issue that concerns both researchers and farmers. Mapping agricultural land is imperative for making appropria...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of drone technology, securing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents critical challenges and demands unique solutions. This paper offers a thorough examination of the security requirements, threat models, and solut...
The rapid deployment of the Internet of Drones (IoD) across different fields has brought forth enormous security threats in real-time data communication. To overcome authentication vulnerabilities, this paper introduces a secure lightweight framework...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is an emerging industry that offers convenient services for humans due to the high mobility and flexibility of drones. The IoD substantially enhances human life by enabling diverse drone applications across various domain...
With the increasing adoption of advanced drone technologies across diverse fields, the Internet of Drones (IoD) has emerged as a novel mobility paradigm, particularly enhancing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in urban environments. Despite i...
Over the last few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also called drones, have attracted considerable interest in the academic field and exploration in the research field of wireless sensor networks (WSN). Furthermore, the application of drones ai...
This paper explores the problem of the security of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) by introducing the drone security scoring system (D3S). D3S is a security assessment method that analyzes the security of a UAV model by analyzing its components. Penet...
Night security is known for its long hours and heavy tasks. In Japan, a labor shortage of security guards has become an issue in recent years. To solve these problems, an increasing number of robotic security methods are being used. However, several...
The conventional supply chain management has undergone major advancements following IoT-enabled revolution. The IoT-enabled drones in particular have ignited much recent attention for package delivery in logistics. The service delivery paradigm in lo...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) deployment has risen rapidly in recent years. They are now used in a wide range of applications, from critical safety-of-life scenarios like nuclear power plant surveillance to entertainment and hobby applications. While...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) has become an important platform for applications such as smart agriculture, industrial monitoring, and large-scale aerial sensing. However, securing IoD communications remains challenging because drones often operate in...
Threats of eavesdropping and information leakages have increased sharply owing to advancements in wireless communication technology. In particular, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become vulnerable to sniffing or jamming attacks because broadcast co...
Drone developments, especially small-sized drones, usher in novel trends and possibilities in various domains. Drones offer navigational inter-location services with the involvement of the Internet of Things (IoT). On the other hand, drone networks a...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) plays a paramount role in various fields, such as military, aerospace, reconnaissance, agriculture, and many more. The development and implementation of these devices have become vital in terms of usability and reachabil...
Priority-based logistics and the polarization of drones in civil aviation will cause an extraordinary disturbance in the ecosystem of future airborne intelligent transportation networks. A dynamic invention needs dynamic sophistication for sustainabi...
One of the most significant recent advances in technology is the advent of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), i.e., drones. They have widened the scope of possible applications and provided a platform for a wide range of creative responses to a variety...
Today, intelligent drone technology is rapidly expanding, particularly in the defense industry. A swarm of drones can communicate, share data, and make the best decisions on their own. Drone swarms can swiftly and effectively carry out missions like...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is rapidly expanding into sensitive applications, necessitating robust and efficient authentication. Traditional methods struggle against prevalent attacks, especially considering the unique vulnerabilities of the IoD, su...
This study aims to enhance the security of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within the Internet of Drones (IoD) ecosystem by detecting and preventing Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. We introduce DroneDefender, a web-based intrusion detection system (...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is greatly developed and promotes many civil applications. However, it can still be prone to several security problems which threaten public safety. The issue of security poses further problems upon linking the IoD to the...
Effective port and coastal surveillance require persistent monitoring, flexible deployment, and reliable target detection in dynamic maritime environments. This paper presents a system- and deployment-oriented autonomous tethered drone architecture,...
This paper presents a novel approach to enhancing the security and reliability of drone communications through the integration of Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) in Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) systems. We propose a multi-drone fr...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, provided with camera sensors enable improved situational awareness of several emergency responses and disaster management applications, as they can function from remote and complex accessing regions. The UA...
Edge processing is a trend in developing new technologies that leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) without transmitting large volumes of data to centralized processing services. This technique is particularly relevant for security applications wher...
Drone advancements have ushered in new trends and possibilities in a variety of sectors, particularly for small-sized drones. Drones provide navigational interlocation services, which are made possible by the Internet of Things (IoT). Drone networks,...
Recently, Internet of Drones (IoD) applications have grown in various fields, including the military, healthcare, smart agriculture, and traffic monitoring. Drones are equipped with computation resources, communication units, and embedded systems tha...
In recent years, due to the rapid development of Internet of things (IoTs), various physical things (objects) in IoTs are smart enough to make their own decisions without the involvement of humans. The smart devices embedded in a drone can sense, col...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is a network for drones that utilizes the existing Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure to facilitate mission fulfilment through real-time data transfer and navigation services. IoD deployments, on the other hand, are...
Security and privacy issues were long a subject of concern with drones from the past few years. This is due to the lack of security and privacy considerations in the design of the drone, which includes unsecured wireless channels and insufficient com...
The security of key and critical infrastructures is crucial for uninterrupted industrial process flow needed in strategic management as these facilities are major targets of invaders. The emergence of non-military use of drones especially for logisti...
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are a valuable technique in coping with issues related to life in the general public’s daily routines. Given the growing number of drones in low-altitude airspace, linking drones to form the Internet of d...
With the increasing demand for drones in diverse tasks, the Internet of Drones (IoD) has recently emerged as a significant technology in academia and industry. The IoD environment enables various services, such as traffic and environmental monitoring...
Drone-based surveillance has become widespread due to its flexibility and ability to access hazardous areas, particularly in industrial complexes. As digital camera capabilities improve, more visual information can be stored in high-resolution images...
The accelerated uptake of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has significantly altered communication and data exchange landscapes but has also introduced substantial security challenges, especially in open-access UAV communication environments. To addre...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) has recently gained popularity in several military, commercial, and civilian applications due to its unique characteristics, such as high mobility, three-dimensional (3D) movement, and ease of deployment. Drones, on the o...
Drones are becoming a greater threat to modern electrical grids with the capability to cause expensive and time-consuming damage repairs to substations and transmission lines. Consumer drones have the potential to cause harm at a low cost, and findin...
Background: The increasing deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for logistics in smart cities presents pressing challenges related to identity spoofing, unauthorized payload transport, and airspace security. Existing drone defense systems (D...
During long-distance flight, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) need to perform cross-domain authentication to prove their identity and receive information from the ground control station (GCS). However, the GCS needs to verify all drones arriving at th...
Drones have become a significant threat in both modern warfare and civilian environments, presenting unprecedented security challenges. While hard kill (physical destruction) defense methods exist to counter threat drones, they remain prohibitively e...
The future integration of drones in 6G networks will significantly enhance their capabilities, enabling a wide range of new applications based on autonomous operation. However, drone networks are particularly vulnerable to jamming attacks, a type of...
Rapid advancements in the fifth generation (5G) communication technology and mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm have led to the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in urban air mobility (UAM) networks, which provide intelligent services...
In the face of growing challenges in modern agriculture, such as climate change, sustainable resource management, and food security, drones are emerging as essential tools for transforming precision agriculture. This systematic review, based on an in...
The open nature of the wireless channel makes the drone communication vulnerable to adverse spoofing attacks, and the radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification is promising in effectively safeguarding the access security for drones. Since dron...
Illegal drone intrusion near airport runways poses a critical threat to civil aviation safety, creating an urgent need for runway-side vision systems that can detect intruding UAVs early enough for safety warning and collision-risk mitigation. Howeve...
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