An interoperability system for authentication and authorisation in VANETs

Autor: Casola, Valentina, Luna, Jesus, Mazzeo, Antonino, Medina, Manel, Rak, Massimiliano, Serna, Jetzabel
Zdroj: International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems; January 2010, Vol. 3 Issue: 2 p115-135, 21p
Abstrakt: Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have evolved considerably over the last years, but despite the wide number of potential applications, VANETs also raise a broad range of critical security and privacy challenges. To achieve privacy, VANETs enforce the concepts of authentication and authorisation via public key infrastructures, relying on a large set of regional certification authorities with explicit cross-certification agreements to provide interoperability for vehicles and services. To avoid the burden of managing these cross-certificates, our research proposes the interoperability system (IS), an architecture to provide VANETs' nodes with a security mechanism for mutually untrusted domains. The IS supplies vehicles with a trusted set of credentials by implementing a certificate status service and a security level evaluator. This paper shows that the proposed architecture can be used to implement a mandatory access control mechanism in two VANET scenarios with a protocol independent of the underlying communication system.
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