Automatic Reverse Engineering of Private Flight Control Protocols of UAVs
Joint Authors
Tang, Chaojing
Li, Ruilin
Ji, Ran
Wang, Jian
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-07-04
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
The increasing use of civil unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has the potential to threaten public safety and privacy.
Therefore, airspace administrators urgently need an effective method to regulate UAVs.
Understanding the meaning and format of UAV flight control commands by automatic protocol reverse-engineering techniques is highly beneficial to UAV regulation.
To improve our understanding of the meaning and format of UAV flight control commands, this paper proposes a method to automatically analyze the private flight control protocols of UAVs.
First, we classify flight control commands collected from a binary network trace into clusters; then, we analyze the meaning of flight control commands by the accumulated error of each cluster; next, we extract the binary format of commands and infer field semantics in these commands; and finally, we infer the location of the check field in command and the generator polynomial matrix.
The proposed approach is validated via experiments on a widely used consumer UAV.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ji, Ran& Wang, Jian& Tang, Chaojing& Li, Ruilin. 2017. Automatic Reverse Engineering of Private Flight Control Protocols of UAVs. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202738
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ji, Ran…[et al.]. Automatic Reverse Engineering of Private Flight Control Protocols of UAVs. Security and Communication Networks No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202738
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ji, Ran& Wang, Jian& Tang, Chaojing& Li, Ruilin. Automatic Reverse Engineering of Private Flight Control Protocols of UAVs. Security and Communication Networks. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202738
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1202738