This paper proposes a novel approach to enhance wireless vehicle-to-vehicle channel-secrecy capacity by imposing signal transmission diversity. This work exploits cooperative vehicular relaying to extract the associated underlying multipath and Doppler diversity using precoding techniques. We evaluated the capacity and diversity gain for the presented approach to ensure its effectiveness and efficiency. The abundance of moving vehicles, operating in an ad hoc fashion, can eliminate the need to establish a dedicated relaying infrastructure. A relay selection scheme is deployed, taking advantage of the potentially large number of available relaying vehicles. Further, we derivate a closed-form mathematical expression for the channel-secrecy capacity, diversity order gain, and the intercept probability. We used the direct transmission scenario as a reference to assess our analysis. Our analytical and simulation results for the presented model showed that channel-secrecy capacity and performance-indicators improved significantly.
Secure and reliable vehicle to vehicle (V2V)communication is a challenging task, particularly due to the wireless medium and the highly dynamic nature of the vehicular environment. There is a need to ensure wireless communication security against eavesdropping and signal jamming in such a highly dynamic environment. This paper proposes a spatiotemporal diversity-based mechanism that employs real time diversity to induce Moving-Target Defense (MTD); a defense mechanism inspired by nature. The mechanism is based on enabling flexible signal manipulation such as runtime diversification to confuse eavesdroppers by transmitting data across dynamic multi-paths relayed through vehicles traveling on a multi-lane road. Simulation results show that it would be very complicated for a malicious user to eavesdrop on a meaningful portion of the signal or jam a targeted data stream.
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