Privacy Preservation and Drone Authentication Using ID-Based Signcryption

By the recent years, the use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) also known as drone have witnessed a remarkable increase. Drones are no longer limited for military services as in the past. They are able to carry out civilian missions like survivor search operations after natural disasters, accidents, especially in the most difficult conditions, such as meteorological conditions and inaccessible or dangerous geographical locations. Moreover with the invasion of a new era, which is the IoT (Internet of Things), carrying a big wave of connected objects, we can talk about drone based IoT. The problem is how can we control such a connected object by preserving the privacy and security of users. The principal goal is to build a new secured architecture to provide a high security level. This architecture will control drones and promote them to an upper level connected with the IoT and the big data paradigms. We propose in this paper an architecture that relies on Id-Based Signcryption and RFID tags.