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Privacy preservation in secure group communications for vehicular ad hoc networks

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Secure communications for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have become an important research issue these years. Many protocols for secure vehicle-to-vehicle communications and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications have been proposed, yet fewer protocols are concerned with secure group communications for VANETs. Of those existing protocols for group communications, some of them form a group of vehicles based on geographical regions and provide broadcasting to the group members with or without message confidentiality. The others allow secure vehicle-to-vehicle communications within a group with session keys, but they do not preserve user privacy for communicating parties within the group. In this paper, we propose a novel group communication scheme for vehicular networks, in which a group is formed by a set of related vehicles of the same purpose, such as a platoon of recreational vehicles targeted for the same tourist spot. The scheme not only offers efficient and secure group communications but also provides privacy preservation for vehicle-to-vehicle communications within a group. Security analysis is given to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed scheme.

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    Wen-Bing Horng & Cheng-Ping Lee

  2. Department of Commerce Technology and Management, Chihlee Institute of Technology, 313 Section 1, Wunhua Road, Banciao, Taipei, Taiwan, 22050, ROC

    Jian-Wen Peng

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Horng, WB., Lee, CP. & Peng, JW. Privacy preservation in secure group communications for vehicular ad hoc networks. Telecommun Syst 50, 355–365 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-010-9409-9

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