MAVSec: Securing the MAVLink Protocol for Ardupilot/PX4 Unmanned Aerial Systems (Record no. 649)

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Personal name Azza Allouch
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Title MAVSec: Securing the MAVLink Protocol for Ardupilot/PX4 Unmanned Aerial Systems
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Summary, etc. The MAVLink is a lightweight communication protocol between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and ground control stations (GCSs). It defines a set of bi-directional messages exchanged between a UAV (aka drone) and a ground station. The messages carry out information about the UAV's states and control commands sent from the ground station. However, the MAVLink protocol is not secure and has several vulnerabilities to different attacks that result in critical threats and safety concerns. Very few studies provided solutions to this problem. In this paper, we discuss the security vulnerabilities of the MAVLink protocol and propose MAVSec, a security-integrated mechanism for MAVLink that leverages the use of encryption algorithms to ensure the protection of exchanged MAVLink messages between UAVs and GCSs. To validate MAVSec, we implemented it in Ardupilot and evaluated the performance of diffe
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Terms governing access Open access — freely available to read.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.00265v2">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.00265v2</a>
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      Available online Cybersecurity Yegates University Library Yegates University Library Science and Computing 09/01/2026   YGE000910 09/01/2026 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.00265v2 09/01/2026 Research paper — read online