Research Article
Speed Based Attacker Placement for Evaluating Location Privacy in VANET
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-05888-3_20, author={Ikjot Saini and Sherif Saad and Arunita Jaekel}, title={Speed Based Attacker Placement for Evaluating Location Privacy in VANET}, proceedings={Ad Hoc Networks. 10th EAI International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2018, Cairns, Australia, September 20-23, 2018, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={ADHOCNETS}, year={2018}, month={12}, keywords={VANET security Pseudonym change Attacker placement Location privacy Vehicle tracking}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-05888-3_20} }- Ikjot Saini
Sherif Saad
Arunita Jaekel
Year: 2018
Speed Based Attacker Placement for Evaluating Location Privacy in VANET
ADHOCNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05888-3_20
Abstract
The deployment of connected and autonomous vehicles is expected to increase rapidly in the coming decade. For successful operation, it is critical to maintain the security and privacy of the communication messages exchanged among such vehicles. One important aspect of this is to maintain the location privacy of vehicles/users that use unencrypted basic safety messages (BSM) to exchange information with nearby vehicles. The use of temporary identifiers called pseudonyms have been proposed for protecting location privacy. A pseudonym change strategy (PCS) determines the conditions under which pseudonyms should change. The goal is to change pseudonyms in a way that prevents an attacker from linking multiple pseudonyms to the same vehicle. In this paper we explore how an intelligent attacker placement scheme can impact the success rate for linking pseudonyms. We propose a new speed-based attacker placement algorithm that can be used to evaluate different PCS. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme is able to increase the rate for successfully linking vehicle pseudonyms.
