I need to create a validation and verification plan for a prototype i am building. The prototype is focused on drone communication. Where i plan to anaylse the MAVLink protocol, and exploit the communication between the drone and Ground Control Station. So my focus is mainly on the networking aspect of drone technology. How can i go about doing such?

Validation $$ how you go about to test that your prototype$$s expected functionality exists

Verification $$ how you will establish that your solution is implemented correctly in terms of all the requirements

identified.

For the following Requirements i have extracted and use cases i have drafted.

Requirements Extraction and Methodology

Drone requirements

Send Telemetry Data

$$ Drone system should allow for telemetry data like GPS$,$ altitutde and battery status to be sent via MAVLink protocol

Receive Commands

$$ System should ensure commands sent by GCS are received and executed by the drone system as intended

GCS

Send Commands

$$ System should be able to transmit commands, configuration parameters to the drone using MAVLink

Receive Telemtry Data

$$ GCS should be able to receive data telemetry data sent by drone for regular status updates

Perfect Communication between GCS and Drone

Establish Connection

$$ Drone and GCS should be able to establish a reliable connection through the MAVLink protocol

Serialize MAVLink messages

$$ system should be able to serialize MAVLink messages for transmission

Deserialize MAVLink messages

$$ system should be able to deserialize MAVLink messages received

Message Acknowledgements

$$ Messsage acknowledgements between drone and GCS for successful message reception

Message retransmission

$$ System should be able to retransmit messages to ensure reliable delivery

Verify Message Received

$$ System should successfully be able to verify the integrity of the messages sent via MAVLink

Attack spectrum

Capture MAVLink Traffic

$$ The attacking system should be able to capture MAVLink messages exchanged between the drone system and GCS system

$$ Capture traffic over the wireless communication channel

Decode MAVLink Traffic

$$ The attacking system should be able to decode MAVLink messages for extracting payloads

$$ Should interpret the MAVLink messages accurately for analysis

Analyze Message structure

$$ The system should be able to understand and analyse message structure of the MAVLink messages and how its data is organized and transmitted

$$ This includes the analysis of checksums, message fields, etc

Identify Anomalies and Patterns

$$ The system should be able to detect anomalies in the MAVLink traffic to analyse deviations from expected behavior and patterns

Message Injection

$$ System should be able to simulate the injection of custom MAVLink messagesby ure MAVLink Trafficattacker into communication channel between GCS and Drone system