Title
A Macroscopic Traffic Model-based Approach for Sybil Attack Detection in VANETs
Abstract
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are expected to play an important role in our lives. They will improve traffic safety and bring a revolution on the driving experience. However, these benefits are counterbalanced by possible attacks that threaten not only the vehicle’s security, but also passengers lives. One of the most common ones is the Sybil attack, which is more dangerous than others since it could be the starting point of many other attacks in VANETs. This paper proposes a distributed approach allowing the detection of Sybil attacks using the traffic flow theory. The key idea here is that each vehicle will monitor its neighbourhood in order to detect an eventual Sybil attack. This is achieved by comparing between the real accurate speed of the vehicle and the one estimated using the V2V communications with vehicles in the vicinity. This estimated speed is obtained using the traffic flow fundamental diagram of the road’s portion where the vehicles are moving.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.01.010
Ad Hoc Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
ITS,VANETs,Traffic model,Sybil attack,CAM,Ad Hoc Network
Traffic flow,Computer science,Traffic simulator,Network simulation,Computer network,Traffic model,Sybil attack,Wireless ad hoc network
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
90
1570-8705
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.54
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marwane Ayaida14316.04
Nadhir Messai2194.13
Najeh, S.362.64
Kouamé Boris Ndjore430.54