Strategies for Securing Safety Messages with Fixed Key Infrastructure in Vehicular Network

Vehicular communications play a substantial role in providing safety in transportation by means of safety message exchange. Researchers have proposed several solutions for securing safety messages. Protocols based on a fixed key infrastructure are more efficient in implementation and maintain stronger security in comparison with dynamic structures. These protocols utilize zone partitioning to establish distinct key infrastructure under Certificate Authority (CA) supervision in different regions. Secure anonymous broadcasting (SAB) is one of these protocols that preserves most of security aspects but it has some deficiencies in practice. A very important issue is region change of a vehicle for its mobility. Changing regions leads to change of CA and necessity of having new key set to resume communication. In this paper, we propose solutions for informing vehicles about region change to obtain new key set before entering next region. This hinders attackers’ intrusion, packet loss and lessons time delay. We also make key request messages secure by confirming old CA’s public key to the message, hence stronger security for safety message broadcasting is attained. Keywords— Secure broadcasting, Certificate authority (CA), Key exchange, Vehicular network.

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