Research Article

UAV-Undertaker: Securely Verifiable Remote Erasure Scheme with a Countdown-Concept for UAV via Randomized Data Synchronization

Table 1

Notations of the entity and messages.

Definition of the Entity Symbols

GCSGround Control Station
UAVUnmanned Aerial Vehicle

Denotation

msg = Message contains two contexts ( and )
msg = ∥ ()Message always contains context, but context is optionally contained.

Definition of the Message Symbols

A symmetric key shared between and
Encrypt with key
Value to compute with hash function
Number of hash function calculations
Retransmission bit
Authentication count
Result of in the hash function
Generated random data against replay attacks
Address of hot data modified after previous authentication
Address of accumulated data modified after previous authentication
Set containing the addresses of hot data randomly selected and the values of those data
Set containing the addresses of accumulated data randomly selected and the values of those data
Proof of Erasure

Definition of the Greek Symbols

Ratio of amount of randomly selected data in accumulated data region
Ratio of amount of randomly selected data in hot data region
Number of re-authentication permits
Initial value of the counter