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The smart devices embedded in a drone can sense, collect, and transmit real-time data back to the controller from a designated environment via wireless communication technologies. The mobility, flexibility, reliability and energy efficiency of drones makes them more widely used in IoT environments such as commercial, military, entertainment applications, traffic surveillance and aerial photography. In a generalized IoD architecture, we have communications among the drones in a flying zone, among the drones and the control server, and also among the drones and authorized user. IoD still has many critical issues that need to be addressed, such as data access being carried out through a public channel and battery operated drones. To address these concerns in IoD communications, in this paper, an efficient authentication and secure communication scheme with privacy preservation is proposed and it only uses secure one-way hash function and bitwise XOR operations when control server, drone and user mutually authenticate each other. After the successful authentication, both IoD-based participants can agree on a common session key to secure the subsequent communication messages. The widely accepted ProVerif and BAN logic analysis have been used to assure that the proposed scheme is provably secure against existing well-known security attacks and ensures privacy. Finally, a comparative analysis is presented to demonstrate the proposed scheme preserves efficiency when compared to existing competitive schemes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22239534","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,7]],"date-time":"2022-12-07T05:50:52Z","timestamp":1670392252000},"page":"9534","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["An Efficient Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme Supporting Privacy-Preservation for Internet of Drones Communications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0637-5666","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chun-Ta","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Program of Artificial Intelligence and Information Security, Fu Jen Catholic University, No. 510, Zhongzheng Road, New Taipei City 24206, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Information Management, Tainan University of Technology, No. 529, Zhongzheng Road, Tainan City 71002, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chi-Yao","family":"Weng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, National Pingtung University, No. 4-18, Min-Sheng Road, Pingtung City 90003, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4958-2043","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chin-Ling","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, No. 168, Jifeng East Road, Taichung City 41349, Taiwan"},{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Changchun Sci-Tech University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8918-1703","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cheng-Chi","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research and Development Center for Physical Education, Health, and Information Technology, Department of Library and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, No. 510, Zhongzheng Road, New Taipei City 24206, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, No. 500, Lioufeng Road, Taichung City 41354, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yong-Yuan","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, No. 168, Jifeng East Road, Taichung City 41349, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8921-8353","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Agbotiname Lucky","family":"Imoize","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos 100213, Nigeria"},{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute of Digital Communication, Ruhr University, 44801 Bochum, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"224532","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2020.3036832","article-title":"An IoT-based traceable drug anti-counterfeiting management system","volume":"8","author":"Chen","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1145\/3001836","article-title":"Security, Privacy, and Safety Aspects of Civilian Drones: A Survey","volume":"1","author":"Altawy","year":"2016","journal-title":"ACM Trans. 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