Research Article
Implementation of Security Services for Vehicular Communications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-51207-5_8, author={Daniel Duarte and Luis Silva and Bruno Fernandes and Muhammad Alam and Joaquim Ferreira}, title={Implementation of Security Services for Vehicular Communications}, proceedings={Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies. First International Conference, Future 5V 2016, Porto, Portugal, September 15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={FUTURE 5V}, year={2017}, month={1}, keywords={Vehicular Communications Intelligent Transportation Systems Security IEEE 1609.2}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-51207-5_8} }- Daniel Duarte
Luis Silva
Bruno Fernandes
Muhammad Alam
Joaquim Ferreira
Year: 2017
Implementation of Security Services for Vehicular Communications
FUTURE 5V
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51207-5_8
Abstract
Over the last years, there has been a considerable development in the field of vehicular communications (VC) so as to satisfy the requirements of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Standards such as IEEE 802.11p and ETSI ITS-G5 enable the so called Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs). Vehicles can exploit VANETs to exchange information, such as alerts and awareness information, so as to improve road safety. However, due to the expected popularity of ITS, VANETs could be prone to attacks by malicious sources. To prevent this, security standards, such as IEEE 1609.2, are being developed for ITS. In this work, an implementation of the required cryptographic algorithms and protocols for the transmission of secure messages according to the IEEE 1609.2 standard is presented. The implemented security protocols are then integrated into an existing WAVE-based system and tested in a real scenario to evaluate the performance impact on safety-related communications, in particular, the overhead that is caused by the process to sign/verify a digital message.