Sequence-, Epoch-, and Integrity-Aware Detection of Replay and Peer-Spoofing Attacks in Decentralized UAV Mesh Networks: A Software-Validated Security Framework
This paper presents and validates a software-implemented security framework for decentralized UAV swarms that prevents replay and peer-spoofing attacks through a strict packet-admission chain combining HMAC-SHA256 authentication, epoch validation, and monotonic sequence checking, while quantifying its performance overhead and identifying shared-secret compromise as the primary residual risk.