Blockchain Assisted Secure Authentication Protocol for Aerial
Surveillance in IoT based Smart Agriculture
Abstract
Data acquisition, modelling and management are the three vital
components of smart agriculture. Drones play a major role in this regard
by capturing the detailed data using high-resolution cameras and
advanced sensors. It acts as a key element driving enhancement to crop
productivity, agricultural precision and many more. The data collected
from the drones are at higher risk of security concerns as the process
of data collection in smart agriculture involves collaboration among
several entities. There is a possibility that the intruders can
intentionally get in to the system and grab the data for wrong reasons.
This emphasis the greater requirement for advancing the security
features associated with aerial surveillance in smart agriculture. This
paper presents a blockchain assisted secure two factor mutual
authentication scheme for aerial surveillance security. The major
contributions of this paper involve twofold: first a blockchain based
secure authentication framework is provided; second, an efficient and
lightweight two factor mutual authentication scheme for aerial
surveillance in smart agriculture is provided. The proposed protocol is
evaluated using the simulation tool called AVISPA and it is assessed for
both security and performance related features. The security analysis of
the proposed protocol states that this approach remains more resistant
to most challenging security threats that occurs across IoT based smart
agricultural systems. This protocol is also providing reduced
computational cost and complexity measures in comparison the
conventional approaches. A detailed comparative analysis shows that this
approach provides the better results with the total computational
complexity of 1.11ms.