Title
AliDrone: Enabling Trustworthy Proof-of-Alibi for Commercial Drone Compliance
Abstract
Commercial use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, promises to revolutionize the way in which consumers interact with retail services. However, the further adoption of UAVs has been significantly impeded by an overwhelming public outcry over the privacy implications of drone technology. While lawmakers have attempted to establish standards for drone use (e.g., No-Fly-Zones (NFZs)), at present a general technical mechanism for policy enforcement eludes state-of-the-art drones. In this work, we propose that Proof-of-Alibi (PoA) protocols should serve as the basis for enforcing drone privacy compliance. We design and implement AliDrone, a trustworthy PoA protocol that enables individual drones to prove their compliance with NFZs to a third party Auditor. AliDrone leverages trusted hardware to produce cryptographically-signed GPS readings within a secure enclave, preventing malicious drone operators from being able to forge geo-location information. AliDrone features an adaptive sampling algorithm that reacts to NFZ proximity in order to minimize the processing cost. Through laboratory benchmarks and field studies, we demonstrate that AliDrone provides strong assurance of geo-location while imposing an average of 1.5% overhead on CPU utilization and 0.3% of memory consumption. AliDrone thus enables the further proliferation of drone technology through the introduction of a trustworthy and accountable compliance mechanism.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICDCS.2018.00086
2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Drone,GPS Forgery Attack,Privacy,TrustZone
Audit,Computer security,Trustworthiness,Computer science,CPU time,Computer network,Alibi,Third party,Global Positioning System,Drone,Policy enforcement
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-6927
978-1-5386-6872-6
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianyuan Liu1124.03
Avesta Hojjati291.24
Adam Bates332423.66
Klara Nahrstedt47941636.63