Vulnerabilities Assessment for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Communication Systems

Abstract

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are being widely deployed due to new technology advancements. Therefore, UAVs used for diverse applications and for various contexts and scenarios to provide to humans advanced services and to support them in hazardous areas and difficult environments. Accordingly, UAVs and swarms' UAVs are widely deployed for smart agriculture, public safety, logistics inspection and supervision. Furthermore, UAVs used to increase the performance and to boost the coverage of existing cellular systems. However, UAVs communication systems could be attacked. In this context, this paper focus on assessing vulnerabilities and enhancing the security of the communication links between UAVs and the ground control Station (GCS). Accordingly, several mechanisms and UAV security issues were investigated. Furthermore, we have identified the MAVLINK protocol vulnerabilities by implementing different scenarios of attacks.