A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) consists of vehicles, roadside units, and other infrastructures that communicate with each other with the goal of improving road safety, reducing accidents, and alleviating traffic congestion. For safe and secure operation of critical applications in VANET, it is essential to ensure that only authenticated vehicles can participate in the network. Another important requirement for VANET communication is that the privacy of vehicles and their users must be protected. Privacy can be improved by using pseudonyms instead of actual vehicle identities during communication. However, it is also necessary to ensure that these pseudonyms can be linked to the real vehicle identities if needed, in order to maintain accountability. In this paper, we propose a new blockchain-based decentralized pseudonym management scheme for VANET. This allows the vehicles to maintain conditional anonymity in the network. The blockchain is used to maintain a record of each vehicle and all of its pseudo-IDs. The information in the blockchain can only be accessed by authorized entities and is not available to all vehicles. The proposed distributed framework maintains an immutable record of the vehicle data, which is not vulnerable to a single point of failure. We compared the performance of the proposed approach with a traditional PKI scheme and shown that it significantly reduces the authentication delay.
Information sharing among vehicles is an essential component of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), but must take into consideration the security and privacy requirements of the network participants. Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a pervasive network, where vehicles communicate wirelessly with nearby vehicles, infrastructure nodes, and other connected devices to improve road safety and provide other useful services. Security of VANET can be improved by ensuring that only authorized vehicles can participate in the network. This research proposes a new approach that uses roadside units (RSUs) to authenticate safety messages and notify vehicles about any unauthorized messages/senders. We present a three‐tier architecture with a distributed blockchain to securely maintain the identity of all vehicles in the network. The use of this RSU‐based approach helps to reduce the computational overhead on the On‐board unit (OBU) of individual vehicles and does not require the transmission of lengthy certificates and certificate revocation lists with each message. Simulation results indicate that the proposed approach achieves improved performance compared to existing techniques in terms of both authentication delay and channel load.
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