Internet of Drones (IoD) is the interconnection unmanned aerial vehicles or drones deployed for collecting sensitive data to be used in critical applications. The transmit collected control room (CR) analysis, while CR sends commands drone monitor their operations. This exchange information between and takes place through a wireless communication channel, which susceptible various security risks. Therefore, it vital ensure confidentiality integrity such IoD environment. To this end,...

A drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle, which deployed in a particular Fly Zone (FZ), and used to collect crucial information from its surrounding environment be transmitted the server for further processing.Generally, Mobile User (MU) required access real-time collected by stationed specific FZ securely.Therefore, ensure secure reliable communications Authenticated Key Exchange (AKE) protocol imperative Internet of Drone (IoD) environment.An AKE scheme ensures only authentic MU IoD network...

In response to the rapid advancements in facial manipulation technologies, particularly facilitated by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Stable Diffusion-based methods, this paper explores critical issue of deepfake content creation. The increasing accessibility these tools necessitates robust detection methods curb potential misuse. context, investigates Vision Transformers (ViTs) for effective image detection, leveraging their capacity extract global features. Objective: primary...

The rise of smart cities and the increasing demand for drones has sparked considerable interest in Internet Drones (IoD) within realms academia industry. IoD presents a multitude advantages city settings, facilitating services like traffic monitoring, environmental surveillance, disaster management by harnessing potential IoT Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANET) infrastructures. However, transmission sensitive messages between IoD-based is disseminated over insecure channels, leaving them exposed...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a revolutionary communication technology, enabling the connection resource-limited devices to Internet. These are deployed in various industrial control systems remotely monitor and applications. However, public Internet's inherent vulnerability malicious attacks poses significant challenge secure operation these systems. To address this challenge, lightweight efficient authentication framework, LEAF-IIoT, is proposed. LEAF-IIoT leverages...

With the rapid progress of communication technology, Internet Things (IoT) has emerged as an essential element in our daily lives. Given that IoT encompasses diverse devices often have limited resources terms communication, computation, and storage. Consequently, National Institute Standards Technology (NIST) standardized several lightweight cryptographic algorithms for encryption decryption, specifically designed to meet needs resource-constrained devices. These algorithms, known...

Ensuring security and privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT) while taking into account resource-constrained nature IoT devices is challenging. In smart home (SH) applications, remote users (RUs) need to communicate securely with network entities through public procure real-time information. While 6LoWPAN adaptation-layer standard provides resource-efficient IPv6 compatibility low-power wireless networks, basic design does not include features. A authenticated key exchange (AKE) scheme...

The revolutionary advancement in the capabilities of hardware tools, software packages, and communication techniques gave rise to Internet Things-supported drone networks (IoD), thereby enabling smooth among devices applications, impacting drastically various aspects human lives. However, with increasing sophistication infrastructure IoD, new security threats arise that require novel algorithms schemes as solutions. To this end, several have recently been proposed. some cannot perfectly...

With the widespread utilization of Internet-enabled smart devices (SDs), Industrial Internet Things (IIoT) has become prevalent in recent years. SDs exchange information through open Internet, which creates security and privacy concerns for exchanged information. To address these concerns, various solutions exist literature which, because high computational communication overheads, are not appropriate resource-constricted IIoT environment. This article proposes a resource-efficient...

The phenomenal growth of smartphones and wearable devices has begun crowd-sourcing applications for the Internet Things (IoT). E-healthcare is considered essential service IoT that help remote access or storage medical server (MS) data to authorized doctors, patients, nurses, etc., via public Internet. As exposed various security attacks, user authenticated key exchange (AKE) become a pressing need secure reliable use these services. This paper proposes new resource-efficient AKE scheme...

Internet of Drones (IoD) offers several advantages, such as enabling ground communications in areas with connectivity limitations due to physical obstacles. However, IoD also introduces new security vulnerabilities. For instance, an attacker could launch a drone capture attack obtain confidential credentials and inject counterfeit information into the network, jeopardizing its smooth operation. In scenarios, authentication plays crucial role ensuring security. Unfortunately, existing...

Smart home environments are a vital component of the larger ecosystem within smart cities, aiming to revolutionize residential living through integration Internet Things (IoT) devices and advanced technologies. However, ensuring robust security preserving privacy in these interconnected ecosystems present significant challenges. During monitoring controlling tasks environment, diverse commands exchanged between IoT device user over public Internet. The is open vulnerable various attacks,...

Enhancing spectrum utilization efficiency (SUE) to accommodate the multitude of 5G-based IoT devices within available scarce has been a pivotal point research in current decade. Equipped with interweave and underlay modes, cognitive radio networks (CRNs) are envisioned be most promising technology for SUE enhancement. Since is swiftly transforming into heterogeneous network, hybrid underlay-interweave mode CRNs appear optimal key Besides enhancing SUE, ensuring fairness among secondary users...

Lightweight cryptography (LWC)-based authenticated encryption with associative data (AEAD) cryptographic primitives require fewer computational and energy resources than conventional as a single operation of an AEAD scheme provides confidentiality, integrity, authenticity data. This feature schemes helps design access control (AC) protocol to be leveraged for enhancing the security resource-constrained Internet Things (IoT)-enabled smart grid (SG) system low overhead operations. article...

In Internet of Drones (IoD), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones are deployed in various mission-critical applications to collect sensitive data and disseminate it the server placed on ground station. Users mostly require real-time from drones, instead information stored by server, specific perform timely actions. However, performing communication with a drone through public channel, which is exposed different security risks, mandates an authenticated key exchange (AKE) between users...

IPv6 over Low Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) has an ample share in the Internet of Things. Sensor nodes 6LoWPAN collect vital information from environment and transmit to a central server through public Internet. Therefore, it is inevitable secure communications allow legitimate sensor access network resources. This paper presents lightweight Authentication Key Exchange (AKE) scheme for using authenticated encryption algorithm hash function. Upon successful authentication,...

Internet of Things-enabled smart grid (SG) technology provides ample advantages to traditional power grids. In an SG system, the meter (SM) is critical component that collects usage information related users and delivers accumulated vital central service provider (CSP) via Internet, imperiled numerous pernicious security threats. Consequently, it crucial preserve integrity communication between SMs CSP for smooth running system. Authentication protocol effectively enables SM communicate...

Smart grid (SG) recently acquired considerable attention due to their utilization in sustaining demand response management power systems. meters (SMs) deployed SG systems collect and transmit data the server. Since all communications between SM server occur through a public communication channel, transmitted are exposed adversary attacks. Therefore, security privacy essential requirements system for ensuring reliable communication. Additionally, an AuthentiCation (AC) protocol designed...