Presentation 2016-02-17
Security enhancement of drone control communications by quantum key distribution.
Toshiyuki Ito, Kazuo Ichihara, Mitsuo Kitamura, Ryoji Nishizawa, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahide Sasaki,
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Abstract(in English) Recently, performances of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs) rapidly progress, and their applications spread into many fields such as filmmaking, inspection, delivering, and so on. On the other hand, security threats such as hacking drone communications are becoming realistic. Securing drone control communications has been an urgent issue. In this paper, we describe a security enhanced drone control communications by encrypting control commands using one-time pad whose cryptographic keys are generated from a physical random number generator. Furthermore, we succeeded in demonstration of a wide-area secure drone control by handover of the control communications with multiple keys supplied by quantum key distribution (QKD).
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Keyword(in English) Drone / Control Communications / Encryption / True Random Number Sequence / One-Time Pad / Quantum Key Distribution
Paper # SAT2015-71
Date of Issue 2016-02-09 (SAT)

Conference Information
Committee SAT / SANE
Conference Date 2016/2/16(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Hiroshima Institute of Technology
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Satellite Application and General
Chair Morio Toyoshima(NICT) / Hirokazu Kobayashi(Osaka Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Takatoshi Sugiyama(Kogakuin Univ.) / Toshinori Susuki(Tohoku Gakuin Univ.) / Masanobu Tsuji(JAXA) / Takahide Mizuno(JAXA)
Secretary Takatoshi Sugiyama(NICT) / Toshinori Susuki(NTT) / Masanobu Tsuji(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Takahide Mizuno(JAXA)
Assistant / Yasushi Obata(Mitsubishi Electric) / Atsushi Kezuka(ENRI)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Satellite Telecommunications / Technical Committee on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Security enhancement of drone control communications by quantum key distribution.
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Drone
Keyword(2) Control Communications
Keyword(3) Encryption
Keyword(4) True Random Number Sequence
Keyword(5) One-Time Pad
Keyword(6) Quantum Key Distribution
1st Author's Name Toshiyuki Ito
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
2nd Author's Name Kazuo Ichihara
2nd Author's Affiliation Prodrone Co., Ltd.(PRODRONE)
3rd Author's Name Mitsuo Kitamura
3rd Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
4th Author's Name Ryoji Nishizawa
4th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
5th Author's Name Mikio Fujiwara
5th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
6th Author's Name Masahide Sasaki
6th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
Date 2016-02-17
Paper # SAT2015-71
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) SAT-448
Page pp.pp.47-50(SAT),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2016-02-09 (SAT)