BRISK AND SECURE AD-HOC VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION

Miraj Shah, Imaad Ukaye, Narendra Shekokar

Abstract: The idea of Car-to-Car communication is a revolutionary phenomenon in the automobile industry. This idea will surely change the future of humanity for good. This technology will surely change the perception of how a traditional automotive was initially thought of by adding endless applications as a boon to mankind. The application of cars communicating with each other is enormous and has already been discussed by many researchers by now. But, the important thing here is how to put it in practice with the increasing demand for cars and making it safe to use it, at least improve the current condition by this new technology and not worsen the situation by digital hacking and other flaws. Since the nature of the Communication System is highly dynamic a strict security mechanism is mandatory for its seamless functioning. We propose to encrypt the communication taking place in C2C communication which is not the same as using the Internet security mechanism due to limitation of its speed and residing hardware servers. Symmetric Cryptography thus fails to incorporate the scope of various security disciplines and hence it is ineffective to use such techniques. Asymmetric Cryptography on the other hand provides an ideal trade-off among various security disciplines and hence it is considered as an alternative approach to accomplish a secure system but it fails when applied in an ad-hoc environment. However, the traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technique fails in several ways so we propose a modified form of communication and authentication technique along with rapid communication and group messages to fasten the speed of communication.

Keywords: Protocol, Communication, Security, Privacy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303017