Bio-Authenticated ECC Framework for Secure Drone-to-Drone Communication in IoD Environments

Murtaja Ali Saare, Mohamed Abdulrahman Abdulhamed, Saad Abdulhussein Abbas, Aseel Jasim and Mahmood A. Al-Shareeda

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