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arxiv: 2606.27028 · v1 · pith:GHX2NVW3new · submitted 2026-06-25 · 💻 cs.CR

Design and Performance Evaluation of Secure RF and WiFi-Based Communication in Drone Swarms via Testbed Implementation

Bhavya Dixit , Aayushi Rajgor , Subham Kumar , Rushikesh Patil , Ananthapadmanabhan A. , Gaurav S. Kasbekar , Arnab Maity This is my paper

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keywords UAV swarmMAVLink encryptionMAVShieldsecure communicationRF and WiFiperformance evaluationtestbed implementationcollision avoidance
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The pith

MAVShield delivers MAVLink encryption for UAV swarms that matches unencrypted performance on a four-drone testbed while resisting key-recovery attacks.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper integrates MAVShield, a lightweight encryption scheme for the MAVLink protocol, into four custom UAVs and tests it over RF and WiFi links during actual flights. Encrypted telemetry supports formation control and collision avoidance using a modified artificial potential field algorithm that works directly in geodetic coordinates. Measurements of CPU load, memory use, and packet delivery show MAVShield performs close to plaintext while exceeding AES-CTR, Speck-CTR, ChaCha20, and Rabbit; algebraic analysis and packet inspection confirm it blocks key recovery and keeps telemetry private.

Core claim

MAVShield provides lightweight encryption for MAVLink messages that, when implemented on four UAVs, achieves CPU utilization, memory consumption, and packet delivery ratios comparable to unencrypted communication and superior to AES-CTR, Speck-CTR, ChaCha20, and Rabbit, while algebraic cryptanalysis and Wireshark traffic analysis establish resistance to key-recovery attacks and confidentiality of telemetry data.

What carries the argument

MAVShield lightweight encryption framework for MAVLink, which adds confidentiality to integrity and authentication already present in the protocol.

If this is right

  • Secure MAVLink links become feasible for real-time formation control without dedicated hardware accelerators.
  • The modified geodetic APF algorithm reduces trajectory oscillations compared with Cartesian versions.
  • MAVShield can replace heavier ciphers when both efficiency and confidentiality are required.
  • Wireshark-based analysis provides a practical method to verify confidentiality in deployed systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same encryption layer could be applied to other MAVLink-based multi-agent systems beyond aerial vehicles.
  • If the four-drone results hold, operators could adopt MAVShield as a default for mixed RF-WiFi swarms rather than relying on AES alone.
  • Extending the testbed to eight or more UAVs would directly test the scalability claim left implicit in the current evaluation.

Load-bearing premise

The four-UAV testbed and chosen flight scenarios capture the security threats, timing constraints, and scaling behavior of larger operational drone swarms.

What would settle it

A successful key-recovery attack against MAVShield on a larger swarm or a measurable drop in packet delivery ratio below unencrypted levels under realistic interference.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.27028 by Aayushi Rajgor, Ananthapadmanabhan A., Arnab Maity, Bhavya Dixit, Gaurav S. Kasbekar, Rushikesh Patil, Subham Kumar.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The figure shows a swarm mesh network with one to all communi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The figure shows integration of encryption-decryption algorithm in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: The figure shows integration of encryption-decryption algorithm in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The figure shows our UAV-to-UAV communication framework. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The figure shows a schematic of the modified APF-based method for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The figure shows the attractive force between the UAV and the goal, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The figure shows the repulsive force between the UAV and the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: The figure shows a flowchart of RF-based UAV-to-UAV communica [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The figure shows a flowchart of WiFi-based UAV-to-UAV communi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: The figure shows the encryption process in the Speck cipher. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The figure shows the encryption process of the AES algorithm. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: The figure shows the encryption process of the MAVShield algorithm. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: The figure shows the encryption process of the ChaCha20 algorithm. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: The figure shows the system architecture and data flow of Rabbit. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: The figure shows a block schematic of MAVShield’s data flow. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: The figure shows the key scheduling and encryption schemes of the MAVShield cipher [23]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: The figure shows a block schematic of the CTR mode used for the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: The figure shows the components integrated on each UAV platform. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: The figure shows Formation 1, in which there is a straight line [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: The figure shows Formation 2, in which there is a T-shaped geometric [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: The figure shows Formation 3, in which there is a Y-shaped geometric [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: The figures show real-time Wireshark captures of unencrypted [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: The figures show real-time Wireshark captures of encrypted [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: The figure shows the CPU load (%) distribution across the WiFi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: The figure shows the CPU load (%) distribution across the RF-based [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: The figure shows the RAM usage (MB) distribution across the WiFi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_28.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: The figure shows the RAM usage (MB) distribution across the RF [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_29.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms rely on distributed coordination and cooperative communication to support scalable operations, extended coverage, and applications such as surveillance and real-time data exchange. Wireless technologies such as radio frequency (RF) and WiFi are widely used for UAV-to-UAV and UAV-to-ground control station (GCS) communication but introduce significant security challenges. MAVLink, the predominant communication protocol in UAV systems, provides message integrity and authentication but lacks built-in encryption, leaving telemetry traffic vulnerable to eavesdropping. In our previous work, we proposed MAVShield, a lightweight encryption framework for MAVLink communications. In this paper, MAVShield, AES-CTR, Speck-CTR, ChaCha20, and Rabbit are integrated into four custom-built UAVs to establish secure communication links over RF and WiFi channels. Their performance is evaluated through flight experiments using a UAV swarm testbed. Encrypted telemetry data enable autonomous formation control and collision avoidance during flight. For collision avoidance, we develop a modified artificial potential field (APF) algorithm that computes attractive and repulsive forces directly in geodetic coordinates, eliminating Cartesian transformations and reducing trajectory oscillations while avoiding local-minimum trapping. CPU utilization, memory consumption, and packet delivery ratio (PDR) are measured for each encryption scheme. Results show that MAVShield achieves performance comparable to unencrypted communication while outperforming AES-CTR, Speck-CTR, ChaCha20, and Rabbit in overall efficiency. Algebraic cryptanalysis and Wireshark-based traffic analysis demonstrate resistance to key-recovery attacks and protection of telemetry confidentiality. The results indicate that MAVShield is an efficient and secure solution for UAV swarm communication.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript integrates MAVShield (a lightweight encryption framework for MAVLink) along with AES-CTR, Speck-CTR, ChaCha20, and Rabbit into a four-UAV testbed using RF and WiFi channels. It evaluates CPU utilization, memory consumption, and packet delivery ratio (PDR) during flight experiments that include autonomous formation control and collision avoidance via a modified artificial potential field (APF) algorithm operating directly in geodetic coordinates. The paper claims MAVShield achieves performance comparable to unencrypted communication while outperforming the other schemes in overall efficiency, and demonstrates resistance to key-recovery attacks via algebraic cryptanalysis and Wireshark traffic analysis.

Significance. If the reported measurements hold, the work supplies concrete hardware-level efficiency numbers for lightweight encryption options in small UAV systems and pairs them with a practical collision-avoidance modification. The direct testbed implementation and attack-resistance checks are positive features. The four-UAV scale, however, restricts the broader significance for operational drone swarms.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / Evaluation] Abstract and evaluation section: the headline claim that MAVShield 'achieves performance comparable to unencrypted communication while outperforming' the listed ciphers is derived exclusively from measurements on four UAVs in a limited set of formation-flight scenarios. No data or analysis address node counts beyond four, traffic density, or coordination overhead at larger scales, so the generalization to 'UAV swarm communication' is unsupported by the reported experiments.
  2. [Results] Results section: the CPU, memory, and PDR comparisons lack any indication of error bars, number of repeated trials, statistical tests, or exclusion criteria. Without these, the reliability of the efficiency ranking cannot be assessed and the central performance claim rests on unquantified single-run or averaged values.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that encrypted telemetry enables autonomous formation control but does not specify the exact flight trajectories, durations, or environmental conditions used in the testbed.
  2. [Security analysis] Details of the algebraic cryptanalysis (specific attacks attempted, key sizes, or success metrics) are referenced but not elaborated in the provided description.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make to strengthen the paper.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Abstract / Evaluation] Abstract and evaluation section: the headline claim that MAVShield 'achieves performance comparable to unencrypted communication while outperforming' the listed ciphers is derived exclusively from measurements on four UAVs in a limited set of formation-flight scenarios. No data or analysis address node counts beyond four, traffic density, or coordination overhead at larger scales, so the generalization to 'UAV swarm communication' is unsupported by the reported experiments.

    Authors: We agree that the experimental results are based exclusively on a four-UAV testbed in specific formation-flight scenarios and that the manuscript does not provide data or analysis for larger node counts, higher traffic density, or coordination overhead. The generalization in the abstract and evaluation section to 'UAV swarm communication' is therefore not fully supported by the reported experiments. We will revise the abstract, introduction, and evaluation sections to explicitly limit the claims to the four-UAV scale tested and to remove any implication of broader scalability without additional evidence. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results section: the CPU, memory, and PDR comparisons lack any indication of error bars, number of repeated trials, statistical tests, or exclusion criteria. Without these, the reliability of the efficiency ranking cannot be assessed and the central performance claim rests on unquantified single-run or averaged values.

    Authors: The measurements were collected across multiple flight experiments, but the original manuscript does not report the number of trials, variability, error bars, or statistical procedures. We will revise the results section to include the number of repeated trials conducted, the observed consistency across runs, and any exclusion criteria applied. Full statistical tests were not performed in the original work because the emphasis was on practical testbed implementation rather than statistical hypothesis testing; however, we can add the requested procedural details to allow readers to assess reliability. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity; purely experimental measurements with no derivations reducing to inputs by construction

full rationale

The paper reports direct hardware measurements of CPU utilization, memory consumption, and PDR on a four-UAV testbed for MAVShield and comparator ciphers, plus algebraic cryptanalysis and traffic analysis. No equations, fitted parameters, or predictions appear that reduce results to self-referential definitions or prior fits. The self-citation to the authors' earlier MAVShield proposal supplies only the framework definition; the performance claims rest on new testbed data. The modified APF algorithm is presented as a direct design choice without any circular reduction to its own outputs. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper rests on standard cryptographic security assumptions for the compared primitives and on the representativeness of a small physical testbed; no new free parameters, invented entities or ad-hoc axioms are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • standard math Standard cryptographic assumptions that AES-CTR, ChaCha20, Speck-CTR and Rabbit provide confidentiality when used with MAVLink.
    Invoked when claiming resistance to eavesdropping and key-recovery attacks.
  • domain assumption The four-UAV flight scenarios capture the relevant performance and security behaviors of operational swarms.
    Underlies the claim that MAVShield is an efficient solution for UAV swarm communication.

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