MSc Thesis Proposal Announcement by Sonia Alice George: "Secure Identity Management Framework for Vehicular Ad-hoc Network using Blockchain"

Friday, August 16, 2019 - 10:00 to 12:00

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The School of Computer Science is pleased to present…

 

MSc Thesis Proposal by:

Sonia Alice George
 
Date: 16th August 2019
Time:  10 AM to 12 PM
Location: 3105 Lambton Tower
 

Abstract: 

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a mobile network formed by vehicles, road side units and other infrastructures that enable communication between the nodes to improve road safety and traffic control. While this technology promises great benefits to drivers, it has many security concerns that are critical to road safety. It is essential to ensure that only authenticated vehicles transmit data and revoked vehicles do not interfere in this communication. Many current VANET technologies also depend on a central trusted authority that can cost computation and communication overhead and be a single point of failure for the network. By using blockchain technology in VANET, we can take advantage of the decentralized and distributed framework and thereby avoid a single point of trust. Moreover, blockchain technology ensures the immutability of the data strengthening the integrity of the system.
In the proposed framework, Hyperledger Fabric, a permissioned blockchain technology is used for identity management in VANET. All the vehicles with their pseudo IDs are registered, validated, and revoked using the blockchain technology. The vehicles in the network check the validity of the safety messages received from the neighboring nodes, using the services provided by the road side units that have access to the blockchain. This framework works on using pseudo IDs to generate digital certificates, thus promising a light-weight authentication and reduced computation and communication overhead for vehicles to access the safety messages in the network.
 

Thesis Committee:

Internal Reader:          Dr. Saeed Samet

External Reader:         Dr. Mitra Mirhassani

Advisor:                       Dr. Arunita Jaekel

 

Thesis Proposal Announcement

 

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