Centralized Group Key Management Scheme for Tactical Swarming Drone Networks

Lee, Jong-Kwan; Shin, Kyuyong; Kim, Kyung-Min

doi:2018.21.6.817

J. KIMS Technol > Volume 21(6); 2018 > Article

Research Paper

Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology 2018;21(6):817-825.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9766/KIMST.2018.21.6.817

Centralized Group Key Management Scheme for Tactical Swarming Drone Networks

Jong-Kwan Lee, Kyuyong Shin, Kyung-Min Kim

Cyber Warfare Research Center, Korea Military Academy

전술 군집 드론 네트워크를 위한 중앙집권식 그룹키 관리 기법

이종관, 신규용, 김경민

육군사관학교 사이버전 연구센터

Abstract

Recently, drones have been used in various field to overcome time and space limitations. However, single drone still has a lot of restriction on transportation wight and travel time. Therefore many studies have been conducted to increase the utilization by swarm of drones. Many things should be additionally considered in order to operate swarming drones securely. Especially the group key management is a challenging research topic in tactical domain due to existence of adversary that has anti-drone skill. In this paper, we proposed an efficient group key management scheme for tactical swarming drone networks where an adversary equipped with anti-drone skills exists. The group key can be updated with a small number of message exchange compared to other convenience schemes. The numerical and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme manages the group key efficiently and securely.

Key Words: Tactical Swarming Drone, Group Key Management, Centralized Scheme, Dynamic Networks