Mattia Piana

As drones become increasingly embedded in civilian systems—from environmental monitoring to disaster relief—the security of their wireless links has emerged as a critical concern. Spoofing and jamming attacks can interfere with navigation or inject false messages, making robust authentication mechanisms… Read More »Challenge-Response to Authenticate Drone Communications: A Game Theoretic Approach

In this paper, the authors propose a physical-layer challenge–response authentication (CR-PLA) protocol designed specifically for drone communication. Instead of relying on cryptographic keys, the receiver drone (Bob) authenticates the sender by exploiting location-dependent wireless channel attenuation, influenced by path loss… Read More »Energy-Based Optimization of Physical-Layer Challenge-Response Authentication with Drones