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Abstract
Vehicular communication systems can provide two types of communications: Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V). However, in both cases, there is zero-trust between the communicating entities. This may give privilege to the unauthorized vehicles to join the network. Hence, a strong authentication protocol is required to ensure proper access control and communication security. In traditional protocols, such tasks are typically accomplished via a central Trusted Authority (TA). However, communication with TA may increase the overall authentication delay. Such delay may be incompatible with the future generation vehicular communication systems, where dense deployment of small-cells are required to ensure higher system capacity and seamless mobility (e.g., 5G onward). Further, TA may suffer from denial-of-service when the number of access requests becomes excessively large, because each request must be forwarded to TA for authentication and access control. In this article, we put forward an efficient authentication protocol without trusted authority for zero-trust vehicular communication systems, called ZeroVCS. It does not involve TA for authentication and access control, thus improving the authentication delay, reducing the chance of denial-of-service, and ensuring compatibility with the future generation vehicular communication systems. ZeroVCS can also provide communication security under various passive and active attacks. Finally, the performance-based comparison proves the efficiency of ZeroVCS.
车载通信系统可提供两种类型的通信:车对基础设施(V2I)和车对车(V2V)。然而,在这两种情况下,通信实体之间都是零信任。这可能会给未经授权的车辆提供加入网络的特权。因此,需要一个强大的认证协议来确保适当的访问控制和通信安全。在传统协议中,这些任务通常通过一个中央可信机构(TA)来完成。然而,与 TA 的通信可能会增加整体认证延迟。这种延迟可能与下一代车载通信系统不兼容,因为下一代车载通信系统需要密集部署小蜂窝,以确保更高的系统容量和无缝移动性(如 5G 以后)。此外,由于每个请求都必须转发给 TA 进行身份验证和访问控制,因此当接入请求数量过多时,TA 可能会出现拒绝服务的问题。在本文中,我们为零信任车载通信系统提出了一种无需信任机构的高效认证协议,称为 ZeroVCS。它不涉及 TA 的认证和访问控制,从而改善了认证延迟,减少了拒绝服务的机会,并确保了与下一代车载通信系统的兼容性。ZeroVCS 还能在各种被动和主动攻击下保证通信安全。最后,基于性能的比较证明了 ZeroVCS 的高效性。
期刊介绍:
Computing infrastructures and systems are constantly evolving, resulting in increasingly complex and collaborative scientific applications. To cope with these advancements, there is a growing need for collaborative tools that can effectively map, control, and execute these applications.
Furthermore, with the explosion of Big Data, there is a requirement for innovative methods and infrastructures to collect, analyze, and derive meaningful insights from the vast amount of data generated. This necessitates the integration of computational and storage capabilities, databases, sensors, and human collaboration.
Future Generation Computer Systems aims to pioneer advancements in distributed systems, collaborative environments, high-performance computing, and Big Data analytics. It strives to stay at the forefront of developments in grids, clouds, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to effectively address the challenges posed by these wide-area, fully distributed sensing and computing systems.