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dc.contributor.authorNatsami, Bridget
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-23T09:05:48Z
dc.date.available2022-03-23T09:05:48Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationNatsami, Bridget. (2022). Investigation of Vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi Based Drones and Suggestion of Countermeasures. (Unpublished undergraduate dissertation) Makerere University: Kampala, Uganda.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/11327
dc.descriptionA report submitted to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of BSc. Telecommunications Engineering at Makerere University.en_US
dc.description.abstractUAVs have proven to be resourceful time and again in various applications such as search and rescue missions, agriculture, surveillance, communication among others. There has been an increase in the purchase for the commercial drones by even hobbyists. The remote-control system of these drones is typically based on Wi-Fi. This reliance on Wi-Fi for control and communication in itself leaves the drones vulnerable to a number of wireless attacks including but not limited to: Denial of Service and Man in the Middle attacks. This research dwelled on identifying the different vulnerabilities Wi-Fi based drones have that make them increasingly vulnerable to Wi-Fi based attacks as well as coming up with suggestions on how these vulnerabilities/loopholes can be addressed to increase their security. To achieve the objectives of this research, we implemented a number of attack vectors on a Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI) Phantom 3 to determine how easy it is to carry out these attacks on a Wi-Fi based drone during flight as with regard to time it takes to perform the hack and the threat level in the event the attack is successfully performed. The thesis concludes with a discussion of various countermeasures which when implemented would reduce the vulnerability of Wi-Fi based drones.en_US
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dc.subjectDroneen_US
dc.subjectWi-Fien_US
dc.subjectDJIen_US
dc.titleInvestigation of Vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi Based Drones and Suggestion of Countermeasures.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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