A certificateless authentication scheme with fuzzy batch verification for federated UAV network

Abstract

Recently, the explosive development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promotes its wide application in various services such as package delivery, traffic monitoring. However, due to the high-speed movement, current UAVs usually adopts the unsecure channel without the complicated authentication mechanism to ensure real-time communication. In this paper, we introduce a certificateless authentication scheme with fuzzy batch verification (CLFBV) to achieve once-for-all verification of parallel messages and ensure the real-time secure communication of UAVs. CLBFV defines the error tolerance property for authenticated communication, which allows a tolerance threshold for the messages that are unable to pass authentication. In addition, our proposed scheme is proved to be secure and existentially unforgeable under the chosen message attack and fuzzy identity attack in the random oracle model. The efficiency analysis shows that CLBFV is more efficient and feasible than other existing batch verification schemes.