Internet of Drones (IoD): Threats, Vulnerability, and Security Perspectives

The development of the Internet of Drones (IoD) becomes vital because of a proliferation of dronebasedcivilian or military applications. The IoD based technological revolution upgrades the currentInternet environment into a more pervasive and ubiquitous world. IoD is capable of enhancing thestate-of-the-art for drones while leveraging services from the existing cellular networks. Irrespectiveto a vast domain and range of applications, IoD is vulnerable to malicious attacks over open-air radiospace. Due to increasing threats and attacks, there has been a lot of attention on deploying securitymeasures for IoD networks. In this paper, critical threats and vulnerabilities of IoD are presented.Moreover, taxonomy is created to classify attacks based on the threats and vulnerabilities associatedwith the networking of drone and their incorporation in the existing cellular setups. In addition, thisarticle summarizes the challenges and research directions to be followed for the security of IoD.