Efficient handover authentication protocol for cloud-edge collaborative UAV networks

RUI Li; ZHANG Xiongwei; YANG Jibin; XU Weiguang

doi:10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2025111

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Efficient handover authentication protocol for cloud-edge collaborative UAV networks

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- Efficient handover authentication protocol for cloud-edge collaborative UAV networks
- Journal on Communications Vol. 46, Issue 6, Pages: 60-72(2025)
- 作者机构：
  
  1.陆军工程大学指挥控制工程学院，江苏南京 210007
  2.南京审计大学金审学院信息科学与工程学院，江苏南京 210023
- 作者简介：
- 基金信息：
  
  The National Natural Science Foundation of China(62371469);The Natural Science Research Project of Jiangsu Universities(19KJD120001)
- DOI：10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2025111
  CLC： TN918.4
- Received：31 March 2025，
  
  Revised：2025-06-05，
  
  Published：25 June 2025
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芮立,张雄伟,杨吉斌等.面向云边协同无人机网络的高效切换认证协议[J].通信学报,2025,46(06):60-72.

RUI Li,ZHANG Xiongwei,YANG Jibin,et al.Efficient handover authentication protocol for cloud-edge collaborative UAV networks[J].Journal on Communications,2025,46(06):60-72.
芮立,张雄伟,杨吉斌等.面向云边协同无人机网络的高效切换认证协议[J].通信学报,2025,46(06):60-72. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2025111.

RUI Li,ZHANG Xiongwei,YANG Jibin,et al.Efficient handover authentication protocol for cloud-edge collaborative UAV networks[J].Journal on Communications,2025,46(06):60-72. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2025111.

摘要

针对在云边协同环境中现有无人机网络切换认证协议存在认证效率低下、物理安全属性缺失等问题，提出一种基于物理不可克隆函数（PUF）的高效切换认证协议，在云边架构条件下实现了无人机在不同地面站间的轻量级切换认证。所提协议设计了匿名响应分割方法，利用加法同余思想对认证使用的挑战-响应对进行分割保护，增强了对机器学习攻击的防御能力。构建了基于中国剩余定理的动态挑战-响应对分片批量同步机制，实现区域内非实时数据预协商，提高了实时切换认证效率和切换稳定性。安全分析与性能评估表明，与现有协议相比，所提协议提供了更加全面的安全属性，且地面站的计算开销降低了9.1%以上，整体通信开销降低了13.8%以上。

Abstract

For current unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network handover authentication protocols in cloud-edge colla-borative environments suffered from low efficiency and lack of physical security

an efficient handover authentication protocol based on physical unclonable function was proposed

which achieved lightweight handover authentication for UAV between different ground stations within a cloud-edge architecture. The protocol employed an anonymous response segmentation method using additive congruence to protect challenge-response pair (CRP) against machine learning attacks. A Chinese remainder theorem-based dynamic CRP fragmentation mechanism was developed for batch synchronization

enabling regional non-real-time pre-negotiation to enhance efficiency and stability during real-time handover authentication. Security analysis and performance evaluation demonstrate that the proposed protocol achieves enhanced security attributes while reducing computational overhead at ground stations by over 9.1% and overall communication costs by over 13.8% compared to existing protocols.

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