A secure billing protocol over attribute-based encryption in vehicular cloud computing

Abstract

The integration of cloud computing into vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has allowed the possibility of offering multiple services to the vehicle owners ranging from safety to entertainment services. The ubiquitousness of cloud computing involves a multitude of service providers; thus, an efficient and secure access control mechanism is required. However, rigorous security features need to be addressed for such commercial-based services to be fully adopted. In this paper, we present a secure billing protocol over attribute-based encryption in vehicular cloud computing. We achieve the identity privacy of the vehicles and their requested services through pseudonym techniques. Certificateless signature scheme is used to assure the authentication of legitimate vehicles which can enjoy the provided services. We use attribute-based encryption to guarantee access control based on the purchased services. We make use of hash chain technique to provide authorization through electronic voucher (credits) which a vehicle has to possess in order to purchase a service. Unlike existing protocols in VANETS, the proposed protocol is not built on expensive bilinear pairing operations. We provide the efficiency of the proposed protocol through performance analysis and simulation.

High availability of charging and Billing In Vehicular ad hoc Network

“…Vehicular ad hoc networks present some particular characteristics despite being a special case of classical mobile ad hoc networks namely the high speed of nodes, the rapidly changing topology, frequent disconnections between nodes [1] and in several cases the large size of the network. The particularities of VANET make it a very interspersing domain which deserves in the last years several studies addressing different aspects, such as: applications [6,7], communication [8], security [9,10], routing protocols [11,12,13], access [14] and cloud computing in VANETs [15,16,17].…”

Lightweight Attribute-based Encryption Supporting Access Policy Update for Cloud Assisted IoT

“…Key Policy Attribute Based Encryption (KP-ABE) is widely applied to secure data in several distributed systems such as Publish and Subscribe systems (Pub/Sub) (Ion et al, 2012;Esposito and Ciampi, 2015), pay-TV systems (Ogawa et al, 2017), vehicular networks (Nkenyereye et al, 2016), ..., where rules on who may read a document must be specified but it is unable to specify policies on a per-message basis. Obviously, these dynamic environments usually require efficiently adding new users and/or revoking existent users.…”

A brief overview of intelligent mobility management for future wireless mobile networks

“…The article by Nkenyereye et al entitled "A secure billing protocol over attribute-based encryption in vehicular cloud computing" [10] presents an application model for a secure billing protocol over attribute-based encryption in vehicular cloud computing (VCC). It also proposes a secure billing protocol over attribute-based encryption in VCC based on the techniques of attribute-based encryption, secret sharing scheme, certificateless signature scheme, and hash chain technique.…”