A special lecture seminar was held on December 17, 2024. Details are as follows.

Title： Trust-aware Defense Technologies for UAV Networks

Lecturer： Dr. Yue Cao （Professor in the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, China）

Date： 15:00〜16:50, December 17 (Tuesday), 2024

Place： Seminar Room 4, the 4th floor, South Building, Koganei Campus

Abstract: As a converged industry of intelligent manufacturing and general aviation, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a significant role in enhancing national security and accelerating socio-economic development. Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs) possess numerous advantages, such as collaborative sharing and open autonomy, making them suitable for executing complex tasks. Nevertheless, with the continuous development of FANETs, security issues have become increasingly severe, threatening both data security and the safety of UAVs themselves. Due to the high mobility of UAVs and the strongly dynamic nature of network topologies, communication links between UAVs are vulnerable to disruption, and transmitted messages are vulnerable to malicious interception, tampering, injection, or loss by attackers. These attacks not only compromise message security, but also reduce the ability of FANETs to execute tasks. The crucial step in addressing these security concerns lies in adopting effective passive security defense schemes in FANETs, accurately assessing the trust value of messages, and promptly detecting abnormal UAVs. This talk will cover emerging research works on network security and data security for enabling applications of UAVs, and potentially to align with vehicular network to form as a space-air-ground networking paradigm.