A key challenge for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the security of their information during navigation to accomplish its task. Information security is a known issue, but it seems to be overlooked from a research perspective, that tends to focus on more classical and well-formulated problems. This paper addresses an experimental evaluation of three Denial of Service (DoS) attack tools to analyze the UAV's behavior. These tools are executed in real-time on the robot while it navigates an indoor environment (inside the University building). We present experiments to demonstrate the impact of such attacks on a particular UAV model (AR.Drone 2.0) and also show a description of existing vulnerabilities. Our results indicate that DoS attacks might cause network availability issues influencing critical UAVs applications, such as the video streaming functionality.
The Impact of DoS Attacks on the AR.Drone 2.0
2016-10-01
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Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English