Practical privacy for value-added applications in vehicular ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Lei Zhang;Qianhong Wu;Bo Qin;Josep Domingo-Ferrer

  • Affiliations:
  • Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China;UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Dept. of Comp. Eng. and Maths, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia,Key Lab. of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing, Ministry of Educat ...;UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Dept. of Comp. Eng. and Maths, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia,Department of Maths, School of Science, Xi'an University of Technology, China;UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Dept. of Comp. Eng. and Maths, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia

  • Venue:
  • IDCS'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Advances in mobile networking and information processing technologies have triggered vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) for traffic safety and value-added applications. Most efforts have been made to address the security concerns while little work has been done to investigate security and privacy for value-added applications in VANETs. To fill this gap, we propose a value-added application, specifically, a security and privacy preserving location-based service (LBS) scheme for VANETs. For each LBS transaction, the scheme provides authentication, integrity and non-repudiation for both the service provider and the user. A user can obtain the service in an anonymous way and hence user privacy is well protected. However, a tracing procedure can be invoked to find malicious users, thereby efficiently preventing users from abusing the anonymity provided by the system.