Title
Privacy-Preserving Cloud-Based Road Condition Monitoring With Source Authentication in VANETs
Abstract
The connected vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) and cloud computing technology allows entities in VANET to enjoy the advantageous storage and computing services offered by some cloud service provider. However, the advantages do not come free, since their combination brings many new security and privacy requirements for VANET applications. In this paper, we investigate the cloud-based road condition monitoring (RCoM) scenario, where the authority needs to monitor real-time road conditions with the help of a cloud server so that it could make sound responses to emergency cases timely. When some bad road condition is detected, e.g., some geologic hazard or accident happens, vehicles on site are able to report such information to a cloud server engaged by the authority. We focus on addressing three key issues in RCoM. First, the vehicles have to be authorized by some roadside unit before generating a road condition report in the domain and uploading it to the cloud server. Second, to guarantee the privacy against the cloud server, the road condition information should be reported in ciphertext format, which requires that the cloud server should be able to distinguish the reported data from different vehicles in ciphertext format for the same place without compromising their confidentiality. Third, the cloud server and authority should be able to validate the report source, i.e., to check whether the road conditions are reported by legitimate vehicles. To address these issues, we present an efficient RCoM scheme, analyze its efficiency theoretically, and demonstrate the practicality through experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TIFS.2018.2885277
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud computing,Roads,Servers,Vehicular ad hoc networks,Monitoring,Authentication
Computer vision,Authentication,Confidentiality,Computer science,Computer security,Server,Upload,Artificial intelligence,Ciphertext,Road condition,Vehicular ad hoc network,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
7
1556-6013
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.42
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yujue Wang17614.77
Yong Ding24512.07
Qianhong Wu38711.95
Yongzhuang Wei46916.94
Bo Qin542230.44
Huiyong Wang6105.54