VANET Security and Privacy list

by Papadimitratos, P., Gligor, V. and Hubaux, J-P

In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Embedded Security in Cars (Nov. 2006), 5−14.

Summary: This paper outlines security requirements for vehicular communication systems. The authors provide models for the system and the communication, as well as models for the adversaries, and propose a set of design principles for future security and privacy solutions for vehicular communication systems.

by Papadimitratos, P., Buttyan, L., Hubaux, J-P., Kargl, F., Kung, A. and Raya, M

In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (June 2007),1−6.

Summary: In this paper, the authors propose the basic ideas of a security architecture for vehicular communication systems, with the focus on communication. The basic objectives are identity and cryptographic key management, privacy protection, secure communication, and in-car protection and tamper-resistance. Their design approach aims at a system that relies on well-understood components which can be upgraded to provide enhanced security and privacy protection in the future.

by Papadimitratos, P., Buttyan, L., Holczer, T., Schoch, E., Freudiger, J., Raya, M., Ma, Z., Kargl, F., Kung, A. and Hubaux, J-P

In IEEE Communications 46, 11, (Nov. 2008), 100−109.

Summary: This article develops a security architecture for VC systems that provides a comprehensive and practical solution. The authors analyze threats and types of adversaries, identify security and privacy requirements. They also introduce a range of mechanisms, to handle identity and credential management, and to secure communication while enhancing privacy.

by Kargl, F., Papadimitratos, P., Buttyan, L., Mter, M., Schoch, E., Wiedersheim, B., Thong, T-V, Calandriello, G., Held, A., Kung, A. and Hubaux, J.P

In IEEE Communications Magazine 46, 11 (Nov. 2008), 110−118.

Summary: In this paper, the authors discuss various issues related to the implementation and deployment aspects of secure VC systems. Moreover, they provide an outlook on open security research issues, which will arise as VC systems develop from today’s simple prototypes to full-fledged systems.

by Sampigethaya, K., Huang, L., Li, M., Poovendran, R., Matsuura, K. and Sezaki, K

In Embedded Security in Cars, Nov. 2005; also in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Vehicular Networks 25, 8 (Oct. 2007), 1569−1589.

Summary: In this paper, the authors study the problem of providing location privacy in VANET by allowing vehicles to prevent tracking of their broadcast communications. They propose a location privacy scheme called CARAVAN, and evaluate the privacy enhancement achieved under some existing standard constraints of VANET applications, and in the presence of a global adversary.

by Schoch, E., Bako, B., Dietzel, S. and Kargl, F

In ACM VANET Workshop, 2010.

Summary: In this paper, the authors investigate Geocast for vehicular networks from the security perspective. They show that, despite usage of basic security primitives, there still exist significant attack opportunities to disrupt message dissemination: denial-of-service by overloading the communication system and denial-of-service by selective jamming. As their simulation-based evaluation demonstrated, both attacks can significantly affect the correct operation of a Geocast protocol.

by J. Freudiger, M. Raya, M. Félegyházi, P. Papadimitratos, and J.-P. Hubaux

In Proceedings of WiN-ITS, August 2007.

Summary: This paper studies the problem of providing location privacy in vehicular networks. The authors introduce the CMIX protocol to create cryptographic mix-zones at road intersections wherein vehicles can change their pseudonyms. They also study analytically how the combination of mix-zones into mix-networks brings forth location privacy in Vehicular Networks. Their results show that that the proposed mix system is effective in various scenarios.

by E. Schoch, F. Kargl, T. Leinmuller, S. Schlott, and P. Papadimitratos

In Proceedings of the European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), October 2006.

Summary: In this paper, the authors focus on the effects of pseudonym changes on the performance of geographic routing that is intended to be used in VANETs. They also introduce a callback mechanism which informs the routing about failed transmissions. The results of this paper provide advice on how to achieve the balance between privacy protection on the one and performance on the other hand.

by K. Sampigethaya, Mingyan Li, Leping Huang, R. Poovendran

In Journal IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications archive Volume 25 Issue 8, October 2007 Page 1569-1589.

Summary: This paper addresses the problem of mitigating unauthorized tracking of vehicles based on their broadcast communications, to enhance the user location privacy in VANET. The authors propose a scheme called AMOEBA, that provides location privacy by mitigating the location tracking of vehicles, and protects user privacy by providing vehicles with anonymous access to LBS applications.

by Joo-Han Song, Vincent W. Wong, Victor C. Leung

In Journal Mobile Networks and Applications archive Volume 15 Issue 1, February 2010, Pages 160-171.

Summary: This paper proposes a vehicle density-based location privacy (DLP) scheme which can provide location privacy by utilizing the neighboring vehicle density as a threshold to change the pseudonyms.

by Jetzabel Serna, Jesus Luna and Manel Medina

In Information Assurance and Security, 2008. ISIAS '08. Fourth International Conference.

Summary: This paper presents existing privacy and trust issues, finding that so far these approaches consider that privacy mostly rely on the use of pseudonyms. The authors also propose the use of a privacy solution based on two mechanisms: a Mandatory Access Control and a novel Geolocation-based Trust Propagation.