B-HAS: Blockchain-Assisted Efficient Handover Authentication and Secure Communication Protocol in VANETs

The traditional handover authentication protocols in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) suffer from important issues like single source of trust, Single-Point-of-Failure (SPoF), and fails to provide robust authentication due to several potential threats. In state-of-the-art of handover authentication,...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on network science and engineering 2023-11, Vol.10 (6), p.1-14
Main Authors: Dwivedi, Sanjeev Kumar, Amin, Ruhul, Vollala, Satyanarayana, Khan, Muhammad Khurram
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authentication
Blockchain
Blockchains
Communication
Computation
Cryptography
Curves
ECC
Handover
handover authentication
Mobile ad hoc networks
mutual authentication and session-key agreement
Protocols
Robustness
ROR model
Security
Servers
VANET security
Vehicular ad hoc networks
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Summary:The traditional handover authentication protocols in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) suffer from important issues like single source of trust, Single-Point-of-Failure (SPoF), and fails to provide robust authentication due to several potential threats. In state-of-the-art of handover authentication, it takes high computation and communication overhead. The main aim of this paper is to integrate blockchain technology into the VANET system and to design a robust handover authentication protocol to solve the above-mentioned challenges. In this article, we design blockchain-based mutual authentication and session key agreement protocols for intra-vehicular and inter-vehicular (handover case) scenarios by implementing the hash function and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). We also validate the proposed model by using the Scyther tool and Real-Or-Random (ROR) oracle, standard model. The proposed scheme confirms security against all applicable attacks during security analysis. Furthermore, a detailed comparative analysis reveals that the proposed method has low communication and computation overheads and achieves more functionality features and security attributes than the relevant schemes.
ISSN:2327-4697
2334-329X
DOI:10.1109/TNSE.2023.3264829