A Blockchain-Enabled Secure and Decentralized ADS-B System for Intelligent Vehicles With Robust AuthenticationShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ISSN 0018-9545, E-ISSN 1939-9359, p. 1-15Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]
As the next-generation air traffic surveillance technology, the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system plays a critical role in broadcast communication for intelligent vehicles such as unmanned aerial vehiclesand aircraft. However, the unauthenticated channels expose the ADS-B system to a high risk of attacks. Besides, the centralization of intelligent vehicles management center is susceptible to single point failures and performance bottlenecks. In this paper, we propose a robust and distributed intelligent vehicles management architecture leveraging blockchain technology to resolve security and performance issues lying in the registration, update, and revocation of intelligent vehicles' identity public keys. Then, we leverage certificate-less short signature (CLSS) to achieve the dynamic identity verification of ADS-B system participants while ensuring message integrity, non-repudiation, and compatibility with low-data-bit message packets. Furthermore, to enhance intelligent vehicles transaction process efficiency within the proposed architecture, we develop an Verifiable Random Function-based Byzantine Fault Tolerance protocol (VRBFT) combining threshold signatures. Finally, through a comprehensive security analysis and feasibility assessment, the results indicate that authentication requires less than 30 ms, block generation occurs within 200 ms, and the system exhibits high throughput and low latency. These findings demonstrate that our solution significantly enhances the security of the ADS-B system and offers a practical and promising approach for real-time, large-scale intelligent vehicle management. © 2025 IEEE.
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Piscataway: IEEE, 2025. p. 1-15
Keywords [en]
blockchain, byzantine fault tolerance consensus, certificate-less short signature, decentralized ADS-B system, intelligent vehicles, robust authentication for ADS-B
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-55720DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3546947Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-86000464880OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-55720DiVA, id: diva2:1952630
Note
Funding: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Grant Number: 23100002022102001)
2025-04-162025-04-162025-04-16Bibliographically approved