UAV Security
Research — PUF/crypto authentication, attestation, and SECaaS for UAV swarms under resource constraints.
Research · UAV swarms · Ph.D., NUS
Trust for aerial swarms that cannot run heavyweight PKI
Research on securing UAV–ground-station and UAV–UAV communication: lightweight PUF-based authentication, swarm-scale attestation, fault-resilient designs, and SECaaS economics — published in IEEE TVT and major networking venues.
SecAuthUAVIEEE TVT
S-MAPSSwarm auth
SHOTSAttestation
SECaaSGame theory
System Protocol suite for UAV networks: mutual authentication (UAV↔GS, UAV↔UAV), scalable swarm authentication/attestation (S-MAPS, SHOTS, clustering topologies), and Stackelberg SECaaS models for multi-stakeholder aerial security services.
Problem Drones are mobile, failure-prone, and compute-poor. Classic certificates and heavyweight crypto do not scale to swarms; physical capture and noisy PUFs break naive hardware-rooted schemes.
Our contribution Designed and formally analyzed SecAuthUAV; built swarm-efficient auth/attestation; added secret-sharing / fault-resilient variants; formulated UAV SECaaS pricing. Collaborations across NUS and partner labs.
Achievements
| Theme | Result |
|---|---|
| Mutual auth | SecAuthUAV — lightweight PUF auth with formal security (IEEE TVT) |
| Swarm scale | S-MAPS / clustering — authenticate many UAVs efficiently |
| Attestation | SHOTS — auth + attestation under mobility |
| Resilience | SSS / fault-resilient designs for noisy PUFs |
| Economics | UAV SECaaS Stackelberg models |