BLA: Blockchain-Assisted Lightweight Anonymous Authentication for Distributed Vehicular Fog Services

Yao, Yingying; Chang, Xiaolin; Mišić, Jelena; Mišić, Vojislav B.; Li, Lin

doi:10.1109/jiot.2019.2892009

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“…A high level diagram considered in the proposed work is depicted in Fig. 1 and is inspired from the work carried out in [9], [19]. As shown in the figure, the considered vehicular fog computing environment primarily consists of the following entities which actively participate in provisioning the designed authentication and key exchange solution in the considered VFC setup based on blockchain and ECC.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this section, the detailed analysis of the proposed scheme relative to an existing scheme [19] Fig. 4: Evaluation of mutual authentication and key exchange mechanism on AVISPA of computational and communicational overheads analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These results have been validated typically for Phase III since the majority of the computational and communicational overhead differences have been observed for this phase. In order to assess their performance, the experimental results derived by Yao et al in [19] have been employed. The authors summarized the computational time required in executing the cryptographic hash function (T h ) and ECC-based multiplicative operation (T ECC ) in their work as 0.596 msec and 1.473 msec, respectively.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To support conditional privacy, one-to-many matching, destination matching, and data auditability in VFC, Li et al [18] proposed an efficient and privacy preserving carpooling scheme using blockchain. Accordingly, Yao et al [19] presented a lightweight anonymous authentication mechanism for distributed vehicular fog services using blockchain. Their primary focus was on cross-data center authentication using blockchain and cryptographic functions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Comparison of the security features provided by proposed scheme against the existing state-of-the-art[19].…”

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Blockchain-Based Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Vehicular Fog Infrastructure

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Garg

Kaddoum

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)

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With the increasing development of advanced communication technologies, vehicles are becoming smarter and more connected. Due to the tremendous growth of various vehicular applications, a huge amount of data is generated through advanced on-board devices and is deemed critical to improve driving safety and enhance vehicular services. However, cloud based models often fall short in applications where latency and mobility are critical. In order to fully realize the potential of vehicular networks, the challenges of efficient communication and computation need to be addressed. In this direction, vehicular fog computing (VFC) has emerged which extends the concept of fog computing to conventional vehicular networks. It is a geographically distributed paradigm that has the potential to conduct time-critical and data-intensive tasks by pushing intelligence (i.e. computing resources, storage, and application services) in the vicinity of end vehicles. However secure and reliable transmission are of significant importance in highly-mobile vehicular networks in order to ensure the optimal Quality of Service (QoS). In this direction, several authentication mechanisms have been proposed in the literature but most of them are found unfit due to absence of decentralization, anonymity, and trust characteristics. Thus, an effective cross-datacenter authentication and key-exchange scheme based on blockchain and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is proposed in this paper. Here, the distributed ledger of blockchain is used for maintaining the network information while the highly secure ECC is employed for mutual authentication between vehicles and road side units (RSUs). Additionally, the proposed scheme is lightweight and scalable for the considered VFC setup. The performance evaluation results against the existing state-of-the-art reveal that the proposed scheme accomplishes enhanced security features with reduced computational and communicational overheads. Further, its extensive evaluation on the widely applicable Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) tool guarantee its safeness against different attack vectors.

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2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)

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Secure authentication and session key management scheme for Internet of Vehicles

Sharma

Chauhan

Chand

et al. 2022

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

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Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an internet enabled connected network of vehicles that provide services more effectively to its users via data sharing and communication with other vehicles and objects in the network. Use of fog servers to create a vehicular cloud which is connected to a primary cloud server is another effective technique that gives better performance by achieving better cooperation between the vehicular cloud and the internet. However, due to dependence on wireless technologies for communication, there is a need for a secure IoV network that can authenticate each device connecting to the network and can further secure the communication among these devices. This article introduced a secure authentication and session key management scheme for IoV (SASM-IoV) working in fog computing-based IoV network. SASM-IoV first authenticates objects before entering into the network and then creates session keys for further communication to be secure. Devices registered to the network are assigned temporary identities, further used in the authentication process, thereby making our scheme more secure. SASM-IoV protocol is effective against many security attacks such as impersonation, man-in-the-middle, replay attack, and many more. Informal security analysis performed over SASM-IoV shows that it is resilient against most security attacks. We have also performed a formal security analysis of the scheme using the widely accepted AVISPA tool. Network simulation and communication cost comparisons show that SASM-IoV is better in terms of different network parameters and provides better security with lower costs when compared to similar security schemes.

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Impact of endorsement policy on the performance of blockchain‐based VANET

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2023

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

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With the revolution in technology, VANET has emerged as a new generation of technology and used globally for intelligent traffic management systems. VANET uses a PKI‐based protocol to maintain privacy and security. Still, some crucial issues remain unresolved, like blind belief in communicated messages, lack of vehicle's interest in participation, revealing the sender vehicle's identity, and maintaining integrity. The solution to these issues will prevent vehicles from propagating fake messages while concurrently protecting the confidentiality of each involved vehicle against tracking attacks. Blockchain, a peer‐to‐peer, immutable, distributed ledger‐based technology, can be adapted as a robust solution to overcome critical challenges and make VANET more secure and reliable. This paper proposes a novel blockchain‐based VANET architecture, blockchain‐based vehicular ad‐hoc network (B‐VANET), implemented on the Hyperledger Fabric platform. B‐VANET aims to secure the network by validating road events before actually updating it on the network. For validation, the trust factor of each vehicle and their past involvement in the network is maintained. Trust factor value decides the trustworthiness of a vehicle. Based on this trust factor, a dynamic endorsement policy is designed. Endorsement policy, part of the smart contract, plays a vibrant role in Hyperledger Fabric. It decides how many and which particular peers can endorse the transaction to make it valid and add it to the ledger. Multiple possible approaches to endorsement policies are identified for B‐VANET and are analyzed using the Hyperledger Caliper tool. These approaches are evaluated for data integrity, confidentiality, and real‐time system issues. An appropriate approach for the B‐VANET system is recognized, giving the best throughput and latency in all possible scenarios. It is analyzed that compared to the worst approach, the best approach achieves an almost 15% increase in throughput and reduces latency by nearly half. We also compared the performance of B‐VANET and other approaches to show that our proposed system better meets VANET's security needs.

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BLA: Blockchain-Assisted Lightweight Anonymous Authentication for Distributed Vehicular Fog Services

Cited by 171 publications

References 27 publications

Blockchain-Based Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Vehicular Fog Infrastructure

Blockchain-Based Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Vehicular Fog Infrastructure

Secure authentication and session key management scheme for Internet of Vehicles

Impact of endorsement policy on the performance of blockchain‐based VANET

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