A Secure and Efficient Authentication Technique for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are under active development, thanks in part to recent advances in wireless communication and networking technologies. The most fundamental part in VANETs is to enable message authentications between vehicles and roadside units. Message authentication using proxy v...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on vehicular technology 2018-06, Vol.67 (6), p.5409-5423
Main Authors: Asaar, Maryam Rajabzadeh, Salmasizadeh, Mahmoud, Susilo, Willy, Majidi, Akbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authentication
Curves
Message authentication
Messages
Mobile ad hoc networks
Privacy
privacy preserving
Protocols
Proxy vehicles
Resistance
Vehicles
vehicular ad-hoc network
Wireless communication
Wireless communications
Wireless networks
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Summary:Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are under active development, thanks in part to recent advances in wireless communication and networking technologies. The most fundamental part in VANETs is to enable message authentications between vehicles and roadside units. Message authentication using proxy vehicles has been proposed to reduce the computational overhead of roadside units significantly. In this message authentication scheme, proxy vehicles that verify multiple messages at the same time improve roadside units' efficiency. In this paper, first we show that the only proxy-based authentication scheme (PBAS) presented for this goal by Liu et al. cannot guarantee message authenticity, and also it is not resistant against impersonation and modification attacks and false acceptance of batched invalid signatures. Next, we propose a new identity-based message authentication scheme using proxy vehicles (ID-MAP). Then, to guarantee that it can satisfy the message authentication requirement, existential unforgeability of underlying signature against adaptively chosen-message and identity attack is proved under elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem in the random oracle model. It should be highlighted that ID-MAP not only is more efficient than PBAS since it is pairing-free and identity-based, and also it does not use map-to-point hash functions, but also it satisfies security and privacy requirements of VANETs. Furthermore, analysis shows that the required time to verify 3000 messages in ID-MAP is reduced by 76% compared to that of PBAS.
ISSN:0018-9545
1939-9359
DOI:10.1109/TVT.2018.2822768