Efficient anonymous authentication scheme for automatic dependent surveillance‐broadcast system with batch verification

• Published in: IET communications 2021-06, Vol.15 (9), p.1187-1197
• Main Authors: Subramani, Jegadeesan, Maria, Azees, Neelakandan, Ramesh Babu, Rajasekaran, Arun Sekar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: ADS-B system; Aerospace control; Air traffic control; Air traffic control and navigation; Aircraft accidents & safety; Altitude; Aviation; Broadcasting; Communication; Cryptography; Data integrity; Data security; Energy consumption; Global positioning systems; GPS; Ground stations; Mobile radio systems; Open channels; Public Key Infrastructure; Radar systems; Security; Surveillance; Traffic information; Verification
• ISSN: 1751-8628; 1751-8636
• DOI: 10.1049/cmu2.12152

Automatic Dependent Surveillance‐Broadcast (ADS‐B) system provides significant improvements in air traffic control system such as optimal routing in non‐radar environments with a new level of safety and efficiency. The ADS‐B system is being installed in many aircrafts in recent year. The ADS‐B equipped aircraft broadcasts the air traffic information to nearby aircraft and ground stations either once or twice per second. Because of the open channel communication atmosphere, the ADS‐B system is affected by many security attacks. Many authentication and batch verification schemes are available to provide data integrity and source authentication for the ADS‐B system. But they are suffering from computational overhead and communication overhead. Hence, an efficient anonymous authentication scheme is proposed for the ADS‐B system with batch verification based on Message Recovery Signature (MRS). The security and performance analysis section ensure that the proposed scheme provides essential security features with less computational and communication overhead comparison with the other existing schemes.