VANET alert endorsement using multi-source filters

  • Authors:
  • Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim;Ahren Studer;Rituik Dubey;Xin Zhang;Adrian Perrig;Fan Bai;Bhargav Bellur;Aravind Iyer

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;General Motors Research, Detroit, MI, USA;General Motors Research, Bangalore, India;General Motors Research, Bangalore, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the seventh ACM international workshop on VehiculAr InterNETworking
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We propose a security model for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) to distinguish spurious messages from legitimate messages. In this paper, we explore the information available in a VANET environment to enable vehicles to filter out malicious messages which are transmitted by a minority of misbehaving vehicles. More specifically, we introduce a message filtering model that leverages multiple complementary sources of information to construct a multi-source detection model such that drivers are only alerted after some fraction of sources agree. Our filtering model is based on two main components: a threshold curve and a Certainty of Event (CoE) curve. A threshold curve implies the importance of an event to a driver according to the relative position, and a CoE curve represents the confidence level of the received messages. An alert is triggered when the event certainty surpasses a threshold. We analyze our model and provide some initial simulation results to demonstrate the benefits.