BANDA: A Novel Blockchain-Assisted Network for Drone Authentication

The development of a comprehensive and decisive drone defense integrated control system (DDS) that can provide maximum security is crucial for smart aerial mobility to sustain the emerging drone transportation system (DTS) for priority-based logistics and mobile communication. This study developed a robust drone defense control system that uses blockchain technology to verify and authenticate the legitimacy of a drone operation and verify its package delivery to forestall possible disruption of aerial vehicular mobility, malicious attacks, and invasions. The system accepts inputs about the drone information and attached package in real-time over the cloud and verifies them using a proof of authority algorithm and smart contract and authenticates them using a decentralized application that is deployed on the drone, the ground control station, and the DDS before executing the appropriate neutralization response. To maintain a proper balance between scalable authentication, security, and speed of responsiveness in taking action, the legacy and the proposed blockchain-assisted approach run in parallel, and the disparity in the result is adjudged a perceived illegitimate aerial mobility intention in real-time. With the deployment of the BANDA on three (3) public networks, the Avalanche Fuji achieved a 97.7 ms authentication latency adjudging it an efficient and effective drone defense security approach for ensuring the sustainability of DTS as an autonomous vehicle for mobility.