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Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Security and Privacy: A Second Look

Authors:
Jesse Lacroix
Khalil El-Khatib

Keywords: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks; Security; Vulnerabilities

Abstract:
VANETs are an emerging infrastructure that makes use of vehicles as the main objects within a network. These networks use either peer-to-peer communications to communicate with other vehicle objects directly or a more centralized client/server approach to communicate with its road side infrastructures to either authenticate, send or receive information. With this added ability implemented into modern and upcoming vehicles, the transportation infrastructure would greatly improve in terms of efficiency, safety and user-friendliness. Although communication introduces better ways of traveling, adding a network infrastructure to vehicles and their environments also introduces the possibility of security breaches inside the vehicles and respective surroundings through internal and external components embedded in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. It has been shown that multiple attack surfaces exist and proper defence mechanism must be implemented to properly secure and deploy this type of network. This survey will present an overview of VANETs and synthesize related works to demonstrate new security mechanisms and how much this type of network and in-house components of vehicles are exposed.

Pages: 6 to 15

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: June 22, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2327-2058

ISBN: 978-1-61208-348-3

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from June 22, 2014 to June 26, 2014