TY - GEN
T1 - An Efficient RSU Authentication Scheme based on Merkle Hash Tree for VANETs
AU - Moni, Shafika Showkat
AU - Manivannan, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Due to the dynamic nature of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), entities in VANETs are needed to be authenticated prior to any communication between them takes place. In this paper, we present an efficient scheme for vehicles to authenticate Road Side Units (RSUs). We exploit Merkle Hash Tree (MHT) to reduce computation and communication overheads for authenticating RSUs. A detailed security analysis is carried out to demonstrate its effectiveness against message modification attack, replay attack, and message injection attack. Finally, our analysis shows that the proposed authentication scheme performs better than the ECDSA+ECDH aggregation scheme with respect to computation and communication overheads.
AB - Due to the dynamic nature of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), entities in VANETs are needed to be authenticated prior to any communication between them takes place. In this paper, we present an efficient scheme for vehicles to authenticate Road Side Units (RSUs). We exploit Merkle Hash Tree (MHT) to reduce computation and communication overheads for authenticating RSUs. A detailed security analysis is carried out to demonstrate its effectiveness against message modification attack, replay attack, and message injection attack. Finally, our analysis shows that the proposed authentication scheme performs better than the ECDSA+ECDH aggregation scheme with respect to computation and communication overheads.
KW - Merkle Hash Tree (MHT)
KW - VANETs
KW - authentication in VANETs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089416580&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9149028
DO - 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9149028
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85089416580
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
BT - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020
Y2 - 7 June 2020 through 11 June 2020
ER -