MAV-DTLS toward Security Enhancement of the UAV-GCS Communication

Abstract

Currently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining a lot of attention due to their different potentialities and use cases. We can use UAVs to track intruders, to capture images and videos in harsh areas and to boost the coverage of existing cellular systems. For all these context and scenario security of the communication system between UAV and its ground control station (GCS) is primordial. The standardized point-to-point communication protocol between UAV and the GCS named MAVLINK has several vulnerabilities. MAVLINK used to carry telemetry, to control, and to command small UAVs. UAV-GCS communication link could be attacked. In this context, this paper proposes MAV-DTLS mechanism to enhance the security of the communication links between UAVs and the GCS. We have described the main issues of our proposed solution that empowers secure communication between UAV and GCS. The obtained result proof that MAV-DTLS resist to the different studied attacks (DOS, GPS spoofing, MItM, Data modification).