A Lightweight Authentication and Attestation Scheme for In-Transit Vehicles in IoV Scenario

With the rise of new technological paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), the authors are going to see an unprecedented growth of connected vehicles on the roads. Also, with the ever-increasing complexity of vehicular electronics and with the increasing number of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) inside these next-generation vehicles, the need for verification of the firmware and software running on these ECUs using attestation techniques is heightened all the more. In this paper, the authors propose a lightweight and secure authentication and attestation scheme for attesting vehicles while they are on the roads. Since this attestation is proposed to be carried out on moving vehicles, there is also a need for authenticating the vehicles with the Road Side Units (RSUs) first before carrying out attestation. Therefore, a combined attestation and authentication scheme for verification of the vehicle ECU firmware is presented here. The ECU firmware running on the vehicles can be attested from the edge servers connected to the RSUs while the vehicles are in-transit and passing through these RSUs. The authors perform a security analysis of the proposed attestation and authentication protocol and compare it with other similar existing protocols. The authors also do a performance analysis of the proposed protocol and show the feasibility of its deployment.

• Record URL:
  • http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2020.3038834
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00189545
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2020, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Alladi, Tejasvi
  • 0000-0003-4612-3180
  • Chakravarty, Sombuddha
  • Chamola, Vinay
  • 0000-0002-6730-3060
  • Guizani, Mohsen
  • 0000-0002-8972-8094
• Publication Date: 2020-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 14188-14197
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 69
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer network protocols; Computer security; Connected vehicles; Internet; Vehicular ad hoc networks; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01765401
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 22 2021 10:20AM