Security In Vehicular Networks Research Articles

Design of a secure communication and handoff protocol for VANETs

Vehicular communications have become an increasingly important communication technique worldwide. The current limitations of vehicular communications are not determined by capability or authentication but by security infrastructure. In 2005, a proposal for vehicular network security was discussed by Raya and Hubaux. However, such protocol is not practical and is unsafe for use in VANETs. In addition, handoff has become a relevant issue for vehicles moving from one region to another. For these reasons, we propose a secure communication and handoff protocol. In our protocol, a vehicle can enjoy seamless service between heterogeneous vehicular networks. Furthermore, vehicular communication is made more secure and ubiquitous.

Cross-layer Location Information Security in Vehicular Networks

Cross-layer Location Information Security in Vehicular Networks

SDRP: a secure distributed revocation protocol for vehicular environments

AbstractSecure routing protocols that are based only on cryptographic techniques cannot guarantee security against all attacks. Among solutions that have been proposed to enhance the security in vehicular networks are the distributed revocation protocols, which provide vehicles with the ability to quickly detect and avoid malicious attacks. However, most of the proposed revocation protocols are vulnerable to colluding attacks conducted by malicious nodes, a situation which results in denial of service. In this work, we propose a new and robust distributed revocation protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks, called Secure Distributed Revocation Protocol (SDRP), with the main objective to exclude misbehaving nodes conducting or not a colluding attack from the routing operation in VANET. We present an evaluation analysis of SDRP on the basis of the simulation results and show that our scheme provides a high detection rate of misbehaving nodes with a low rate of false positives even in the presence of a large number of attackers. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Measuring the performance of movement‐assisted certificate revocation list distribution in VANET

AbstractVehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) emerges as a promising technology and has chances of very likely to be deployed in the coming years. The security of vehicular networks will be an important way to facilitate road safety. In this paper, we are concerned with the problem of effective and efficient distribution of the certificate revocation units (RSUs) in vehicular networks. We propose a novel distributed approach by introducing mobile nodes that have public safety. An optimal route for mobile nodes is designed to cover blind areas under both delay and cost constraints. The performances of the movement‐assisted approach are measured and evaluated by extensive experiments in large scale networks for Certificate Revocation List (CRL) distribution in VANET. The results show that the proposed movement‐assisted approach obviously improves the performance. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Call for Papers for Special Issue on Security in Cooperative Vehicular Networks Security and Communication Networks, Wiley Online Library, ISSN: 1939‐0114

Call for Papers for Special Issue on Security in Cooperative Vehicular Networks Security and Communication Networks, Wiley Online Library, ISSN: 1939‐0114

Policy Management for Secure Data Access Control in Vehicular Networks

The state-of-the-art research in vehicular network security does not address the need for low latency message access control in vehicular applications with tight connection time and message delay requirements. In existing security solutions, the major limitation is that no trust establishment mechanisms that adapt to rapidly changing scenarios and highly mobile environments (mainly because of key management delay, processing overhead, and changing communication peers). To address this issue, we present a policy management framework for secure data access control in vehicular networks. Our solution address two interrelated research areas to achieve efficiency and scalability for data access control and policy management in highly dynamic vehicular networks. The main contributions are in two-fold: (a) efficient key management and group-based policy enforcement using attribute-based cryptography; and (b) dynamic security policy management framework and methodology to manage credentials based on role, time, location and other situation dependent attributes. Our solution utilizes efficient attribute-based cryptography algorithm to achieve unprecedented speedups in message processing time to meet the real-time requirement. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed solution, a systematic and comprehensive evaluation is produced to valid our proposed solution.

Vehicular Networks Security

This article provides a panorama on the security in vehicular networks’ environments. The special characteristics of these environments are presented and a general classification for the different types of attacks illustrated by some relevant attacks examples is introduced. Consequently, some key security requirements and security challenges are derived, considering Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) or Safety services as well as non-ITS or non-Safety services. Finally, some existing contributions in this subject are presented, and their deployment feasibility is discussed.