Method of mutual authentication of UAV swarm elements under uncertainties

A method and algorithm for mutual authentication of UAV swarm elements under uncertainties based on reinforcement learning was developed. The algorithm includes a set of static keys, pre-distributed among the UAV swarm elements, and dynamic keys, which are used together with static s to form a session key. Dynamic keys are never shared, instead other swarm elements learning to generate the dynamic keys of all other elements using reinforcement learning and the epsilongreedy strategy. Practical experiments showed the applicability of the proposed method.