Abstract:
Purpose – This research work aims to develop a framework which should
be able to couple the location privacy with safety so that the safety and
privacy tradeoff could be minimized without sacrificing the reliability of the
VANETs
Methodology/Design – The scheme uses pseudonym technique and
reduces the number of authentication and safety messages for achieving the
location privacy. Light-weight cryptography is used for authentication of
vehicles and generation of the pseudonym.
Findings – The proposed scheme provides protection from the adver saries that performs tracking of vehicles. The scheme also avoids the com munication overhead and network congestion. In addition to that protection
against various attacks such as Sybil, impersonation, bogus information, and
linking attacks is achieved.
Research limitations – Vehicle to vehicle message authentication is not
addressed in the proposed framework.
Practical implications – The framework can be implemented in various
IoT fields other than VANETs such as wireless sensor networks (WSN) and
Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs).
Originality/value – The framework provides a unique design to preserve
location privacy along with safety using Light-weight cryptography and zero
knowledge proof concept. Also the communication overhead is minimized by
achieving the authentication and safety via significantly reducing the number
of messages shared on the network.
