A Comprehensive Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Attacks and Neutralization Techniques

Vinay Chamola; Pavan Kotesh; Aayush Agarwal; Naren; Navneet Gupta; Mohsen Guizani

doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2020.102324

A Comprehensive Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Attacks and Neutralization Techniques

Ad Hoc Netw. 2021 Feb 1:111:102324. doi: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2020.102324. Epub 2020 Oct 10.

Authors

Vinay Chamola^{1

2}, Pavan Kotesh¹, Aayush Agarwal¹, Naren¹, Navneet Gupta¹, Mohsen Guizani³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus, 333031, India.
² APPCAIR, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus, 333031, India.
³ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, 2713 Doha, Qatar.

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have revolutionized the aircraft industry in this decade. UAVs are now capable of carrying out remote sensing, remote monitoring, courier delivery, and a lot more. A lot of research is happening on making UAVs more robust using energy harvesting techniques to have a better battery lifetime, network performance and to secure against attackers. UAV networks are many times used for unmanned missions. There have been many attacks on civilian, military, and industrial targets that were carried out using remotely controlled or automated UAVs. This continued misuse has led to research in preventing unauthorized UAVs from causing damage to life and property. In this paper, we present a literature review of UAVs, UAV attacks, and their prevention using anti-UAV techniques. We first discuss the different types of UAVs, the regulatory laws for UAV activities, their use cases, recreational, and military UAV incidents. After understanding their operation, various techniques for monitoring and preventing UAV attacks are described along with case studies.

Keywords: Attacks; Drone; Jamming; Neutralization; UAV.

Publication types

Review