Adjusted Location Privacy Scheme for VANET Safety Applications

Ruqayah Al-Ani, Bo Zhou, Qi Shi, Thar Baker, Mohamed Abdlhamed

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Abstract

The primary aim of Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANET) is to enhance traffic safety by enabling frequent broadcasting of location information between vehicles. In VANET safety applications, a vehicle requires to broadcast messages, which usually contain its location information, every (1-10 Hz) with other vehicles in its communication area (300m) to facilitate cooperative awareness. This would arise privacy issues because vehicles are vulnerable to tracking attacks via their locations. To prevent long-term linking, many privacy schemes have adopted a silent period in which a vehicle stops sharing its locations for a period. However, silent periods could have a negative impact on safety applications as an accident could have happened if a vehicle stop sharing its locations with other neighbours. Thus, in this paper, we first discuss three privacy schemes (RSP, SLOW and CAPS), which adopted silent periods but in different concepts. Then, we improve the privacy and safety level of CAPS. A privacy simulator PREXT is used to evaluate and compare the performance of schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2020
Subtitle of host publicationManagement in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728149738
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Apr 2020
Event2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2020 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 20 Apr 202024 Apr 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2020: Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2020

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2020
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period20/04/2024/04/20

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Keywords

  • privacy
  • safety
  • silent periods
  • VANET safety applications

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