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Fog-based low latency and lightweight authentication protocol for vehicular communication

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Fog-based vehicular communication has received a huge interest due to rise in vehicular traffic and numerous services, like transferring messages among vehicles in an emergency and other scenarios. Secure storage, password protection, authorization, accessibility, and an authentic summary of the data flow are required in existing centralized approach. Conventional approaches process data at the servers, which affects network latency and throughput. Transferring data from edge devices to a centralized server increases the risk of being hacked, which results in corrupted data and data destruction. Nonetheless, conventional fog-based protocols are susceptible to various threats and proved inefficient in terms of computation and communication cost. In this article, we propose a secure and robust authentication protocol for fog-based vehicular communication. Moreover, the formal security verification using Random Oracle Model and commonly used software, Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications and informal analysis represent that our proposed protocol is secure against man-in-the-middle and replay attacks. The performance comparison shows that the protocol addresses added security features with the least possible latency, computation, communication, and storage cost compared to the state-of-the-art protocols. As a result, our proposed protocol’s high-security features indicate its robustness and make it feasible for practical application.

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Saru Kumari is supported by the State Government of Uttar Pradesh, India under the “Research and Development” scheme grant sanctioned vide the Government order no. -89/2022/1585/sattar-4-2022/001-4-32-2022 dated 10/11/2022.

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  2. Department of Mathematics, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, 250004, India

    Saru Kumari

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Akram, M.A., Mian, A.N. & Kumari, S. Fog-based low latency and lightweight authentication protocol for vehicular communication. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 16, 629–643 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-022-01425-1

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