Determination Working Modes of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) over Encrypted Wi-Fi Traffic using Artificial Neural Networks

Abstract

Developing technology has also made the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) widespread. While UAVs provide beneficial use in many sectors from engineering solutions to visual arts, they also come up with malicious uses and can even be used as a tool for committing crimes. Although the states are trying to register its use with legislation in order to prevent this problem, the problem has not been completely eliminated. The most important problem we face about UAVs is to be able to percept quickly and effectively for what purpose they are flying over a certain region. Although previous studies in the literature were partially successful in solving this problem, it could not be considered as an effective solution due to high costs and long detection time. In this study, the encrypted wi-fi traffic was tried to be defined by the data packet size analysis method to determine the operating modes of the UAVs. Since the amount of data and data processing speed are the most important factors in the detection of UAVs, processes based on artificial intelligence and machine learning have been applied. Using the feed-forward backpropagation artificial neural network method, the operating modes of the UAVs were determined and a success rate of 99.29% was achieved.

Keywords

• uav perception
• encrypted wi-fi traffic
• artificial neural networks