Secure and Efficient Blockchain-Assisted Authentication for Edge-Integrated Internet-of-Vehicles

Edge-Integrated Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) sinks service to edge nodes, which responses quickly to vehicles' requests and alleviates the burden of cloud servers. In such scenario, the entities of IoV need to be mutually authenticated since potential attacks can impersonate edge nodes to send false instructions to vehicles, or impersonate legitimate service subscribers to get free-ride IoV services. Furthermore, due to the high mobility characteristics of vehicles, frequent authentication is required between vehicles and edge nodes. The authors hope that the authentication process can be conducted efficiently to ensure the continuous service. Existing works cannot balance the security and efficiency well. This is still an issue worthy of discussion. In this article, the authors propose SEA, a secure and efficient blockchain-assisted authentication scheme for IoV. SEA achieves mutual authentication among vehicles, edge nodes and cloud servers. Specifically, the cloud server is only involved when vehicles are initially authenticated. And edge nodes realize the authentication of vehicles by querying the authentication result recorded by cloud on the blockchain, which significantly reduces the cryptographic computation overhead and eliminates network communication delay. Besides, session keys between any two entities involved are negotiated, which can secure sensitive data of vehicles. Extensive experiments have been conducted to show the security and efficiency of SEA.

• Record URL:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2022.3194008
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00189545
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2022, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Shen, Meng
  • Lu, Hao
  • Wang, Fei
  • Liu, Huisen
  • Zhu, Liehuang
• Publication Date: 2022-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 12250-12263
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 71
  • Issue Number: 11
  • 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: Blockchains; Cloud computing; Computer security; Internet; Motor vehicles
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01865812
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 29 2022 9:30AM