Hussain, SajidChaudhry, Shehzad AshrafAlomari, Osama AhmadAlsharif, Mohammed H.Khan, Muhammad KhurramKumar, Neeraj2023-08-062023-08-0620211932-81841937-9234https://hdl.handle.net/11363/5188https://doi.org/The continuous innovation and progression in hardware, software and communication technologies helped the expansion and accelerated growth in Internet of Things based drone networks (IoD), for the devices, applications and people to communicate and share data. IoD can enhance comfort in many applications including, daily life, commercial, and military/rescue operations in smart cities. However, this growth in infrastructure smartness is also subject to new security threats and the countermeasures require new customized solutions for IoD. Many schemes to secure IoD environments are proposed recently; however, some of those were proved as insecure and some degrades the efficiency. In this article, using elliptic curve cryptography, we proposed a new authentication scheme to secure the communication between a user and a drone flying in some specific flying zone. The security of the proposed scheme is solicited using formal Random oracle method along with a brief discussion on security aspects provided by proposed scheme. Finally, the comparisons with some related and latest schemes is illustrated.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesAuthenticationdrone capture attackInternet of Drones (IoD)Internet of Things (IoT) securitykey-agreementprovable securitysmart city securitythree-factor authenticationArticle1534431443810.1109/JSYST.2021.30570472-s2.0-85102304557Q1WOS:000690994700131Q2