MARINE: Man-in-the-Middle Attack Resistant Trust Model in Connected Vehicles

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork (VANET), a novel technology holds a paramount importance within the transportation domain due to its abilities to increase traffic efficiency and safety. Connected vehicles propagate sensitive information which must be shared with the neighbors in a secure environment. However, VANET may also include dishonest nodes such as Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) attackers aiming to distribute and share malicious content with the vehicles, thus polluting the network with compromised information. In this regard, establishing trust among connected vehicles can increase security as every participating vehicle will generate and propagate authentic, accurate and trusted content within the network. In this paper, we propose a novel trust model, namely, Man-in-the-middle Attack Resistance trust model IN connEcted vehicles (MARINE), which identifies dishonest nodes performing MiTM attacks in an efficient way as well as revokes their credentials. Every node running MARINE system first establishes trust for the sender by performing multi-dimensional plausibility checks. Once the receiver verifies the trustworthiness of the sender, the received data is then evaluated both directly and indirectly. Extensive simulations are carried out to evaluate the performance and accuracy of MARINE rigorously across three MiTM attacker models and the bench-marked trust model. Simulation results show that for a network containing 35% MiTM attackers, MARINE outperforms the state of the art trust model by 15%, 18%, and 17% improvements in precision, recall and F-score, respectively.

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Architecture for Resource Allocation in the Internet of Vehicles for Cooperating Driving System

“…e BS has only access to gentle decreasing certificate status information (CSI) of vehicular associations, except those who are dismissing at the BS [11,12].…”

TSME: a trust-based security scheme for message exchange in vehicular Ad hoc networks

“…Several reputation systems have been proposed for peer-to-peer networks [6,7], ad hoc networks [8][9][10], wireless sensor networks [11,12] and Internet of Vehicle [13][14][15]. However, these systems cannot be applied to VANETs in their existing forms they do not consider the main VANET characteristics: dynamicity and high speed.…”

“…Some of them [16,17] were proposed to deal with a specific type of message while others [3,6,19] used decentralized trust systems, relying on interactions with neighbors, which is not practical in the highly dynamic environment of a VANET. Several works [4,10,15,23] tried to cope with a specific type of attack, which can be a limitation whereas several others were designed to handle a specific challenge such as authentication [24], privacy [20,25] or localization [18,22]. Therefore, unlike other solutions, we propose an adaptive trust-based security scheme for message exchange in VANETs based on VGA, our new clustering algorithm designed to handle the dynamicity such networks.…”