Securing UAV Networks: A Lightweight Chaotic-Frequency Hopping Approach to Counter Jamming Attacks

Abstract

Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are becoming more and more widespread for a variety of uses, including delivery, inspection, and monitoring. On the other hand, safe communication between drones is a crucial problem that must be solved. It has been discovered that current lightweight authentication systems for protecting UAV communications are susceptible to jamming assaults. In this study, we provide a novel method for UAV safe communication that combines frequency hopping with chaotic mapping. The suggested technique makes use of chaotic maps' unpredictability and randomness to create a secure frequency hopping sequence that is challenging to jam or intercept. We describe in detail the planning, analysis, and application of our suggested approach, and we assess its efficacy using experiments and simulations. The results show that our method can successfully stop jamming attempts and provide a high degree of security for UAV communications. Our work advances the development of drone communication systems that are secure, making it possible for flying robots to operate in a variety of applications, in a more dependable and safe manner.