A Topological Approach to Secure Message Dissemination in Vehicular Networks

Chen, J; Mao, G; Li, C; Zhang, D

A Topological Approach to Secure Message Dissemination in Vehicular Networks

Chen, J

Mao, G

Li, C Zhang, D

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Publisher:: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018, 21, (1), pp. 135-148
Issue Date:: 2018-03-22

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dc.contributor.author	Chen, J https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3072-1872
dc.contributor.author	Mao, G https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3598-4949
dc.contributor.author	Li, C
dc.contributor.author	Zhang, D
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-21T02:06:55Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-21T02:06:55Z
dc.date.issued	2018-03-22
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018, 21, (1), pp. 135-148
dc.identifier.issn	1524-9050
dc.identifier.issn	1558-0016
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/149031
dc.description.abstract	Secure message dissemination is an important issue in vehicular networks, especially considering the vulnerability of vehicle to vehicle message dissemination to malicious attacks. Traditional security mechanisms, largely based on message encryption and key management, can only guarantee secure message exchanges between known source and destination pairs. In vehicular networks however, every vehicle may learn its surrounding environment and contributes as a source, while in the meantime act as a destination or a relay of information from other vehicles, message exchanges often occur between "stranger" vehicles. For secure message dissemination in vehicular networks against insider attackers, who may tamper the content of the disseminated messages, ensuring the consistency and integrity of the transmitted messages becomes a major concern that traditional message encryption and key management based approaches fall short to provide. In this paper, by incorporating the underlying network topology information, we propose an optimal decision algorithm that is able to maximize the chance of making a correct decision on the message content, assuming the prior knowledge of the percentage of malicious vehicles in the network. Furthermore, a novel heuristic decision algorithm is proposed that can make decisions without the aforementioned knowledge of the percentage of malicious vehicles. Simulations are conducted to compare the security performance achieved by our proposed decision algorithms with that achieved by existing ones that do not consider or only partially consider the topological information, to verify the effectiveness of the algorithms. Our results show that by incorporating the network topology information, the security performance can be much improved. This work shed light on the optimum algorithm design for secure message dissemination.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/TITS.2018.2889746
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, 0905 Civil Engineering, 1507 Transportation and Freight Services
dc.subject.classification	Logistics & Transportation
dc.title	A Topological Approach to Secure Message Dissemination in Vehicular Networks
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CRIN - Realtime Information Networks
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Electrical and Data Engineering
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Abstract:

Secure message dissemination is an important issue in vehicular networks, especially considering the vulnerability of vehicle to vehicle message dissemination to malicious attacks. Traditional security mechanisms, largely based on message encryption and key management, can only guarantee secure message exchanges between known source and destination pairs. In vehicular networks however, every vehicle may learn its surrounding environment and contributes as a source, while in the meantime act as a destination or a relay of information from other vehicles, message exchanges often occur between "stranger" vehicles. For secure message dissemination in vehicular networks against insider attackers, who may tamper the content of the disseminated messages, ensuring the consistency and integrity of the transmitted messages becomes a major concern that traditional message encryption and key management based approaches fall short to provide. In this paper, by incorporating the underlying network topology information, we propose an optimal decision algorithm that is able to maximize the chance of making a correct decision on the message content, assuming the prior knowledge of the percentage of malicious vehicles in the network. Furthermore, a novel heuristic decision algorithm is proposed that can make decisions without the aforementioned knowledge of the percentage of malicious vehicles. Simulations are conducted to compare the security performance achieved by our proposed decision algorithms with that achieved by existing ones that do not consider or only partially consider the topological information, to verify the effectiveness of the algorithms. Our results show that by incorporating the network topology information, the security performance can be much improved. This work shed light on the optimum algorithm design for secure message dissemination.

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