Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Computers, Materials & Continua

Volume

68

Issue

1

First Page

229

Last Page

246

Publisher

Ad hoc networks, data security, digital signatures, distributed storage, intelligent vehicles, vehicular ad hoc networks, wireless communication

School

School of Science

RAS ID

34799

Comments

Suaib Akhter, A. F. M., Shahen Shah, A. F. M., Ahmed, M., Moustafa, N., Çavuşoğlu, U., & Zengin, A. (2021). A secured message transmission protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks. Computers, Materials & Continua, 68(1), 229-246. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.015447

Abstract

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) become a very crucial addition in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). It is challenging for a VANET system to provide security services and parallelly maintain high throughput by utilizing limited resources. To overcome these challenges, we propose a blockchain-based Secured Cluster-based MAC (SCB-MAC) protocol. The nearby vehicles heading towards the same direction will form a cluster and each of the clusters has its blockchain to store and distribute the safety messages. The message which contains emergency information and requires Strict Delay Requirement (SDR) for transmission are called safety messages (SM). Cluster Members (CMs) sign SMs with their private keys while sending them to the blockchain to confirm authentication, integrity, and confidentiality of the message. A Certificate Authority (CA) is responsible for physical verification, key generation, and privacy preservation of the vehicles. We implemented a test scenario as proof of concept and tested the safety message transmission (SMT) protocol in a real-world platform. Computational and storage overhead analysis shows that the proposed protocol for SMT implements security, authentication, integrity, robustness, non-repudiation, etc. while maintaining the SDR. Messages that are less important compared to the SMs are called non-safety messages (NSM) and vehicles use RTS/CTS mechanism for NSM transmission. Numerical studies show that the proposed NSM transmission method maintains 6 times more throughput, 2 times less delay and 125% less Packet Dropping Rate (PDR) than traditional MAC protocols. These results prove that the proposed protocol outperforms the traditionalMAC protocols.

DOI

10.32604/cmc.2021.015447

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