Secure ultra-lightweight RFID mutual authentication protocol based on transparent computing for IoV

Transparent Computing (TC) has become a promising paradigm in the network computing era, the appearance of Transparent Computing have a real impact on the industry. A growing number of cars on the road, in order to reduce road congestion, improve efficiency, and increase travelers satisfaction, IoV (Internet of Vehicles) arises at the proper time. RFID as an excellent sensing equipment is widely used in the IoV. Tags can collect information separately. The surrounding readers transmit the information to the central processing unit by using the Transparent Computing technique. Data sharing is the premise of IoV, drivers can share their information, in the meantime, they do not want to expose their own privacy information, so anonymity and untraceability is very important. Unfortunately, current applicable or proposed protocols fail to satisfy the security, efficiency and usability. In this paper, we propose a mutual authentication protocol to protect driver’s privacy, TC is used in our protocol, so we can make full use of client hardware, improve the quality of user experience. The last but not least, because the existence of OS-level monitoring and attack tracing, system security increase greatly.