what are the security requirements and challenges of VANETsSolu.pdf
- 1. what are the security requirements and challenges of VANETs? Solution CHALLENGING ISSUE IN VANET : Although the characteristics of VANET distinguishes it a different network but some characteristics imposes some challenges to deploy the VANET. These are the following categories: Technical Challenges : The technical challenges deals with the technical obstacles which should be resolved before the deployment of VANET. Some challenges are given below: • Network Management: Due to high mobility, the network topology and channel condition change rapidly. Due to this, we can’t use structures like tree because these structures can’t be set up and maintained as rapidly as the topology changed. • Congestion and collision Control: The unbounded network size also creates a challenge. The traffic load is low in rural areas and night in even urban areas. Due to this, the network partitions frequently occurs while in rush hours the traffic load is very high and hence network is congested and collision occurs in the network. • Environmental Impact: VANETs use the electromagnetic waves for communication. These waves are affected by the environment. Hence to deploy the VANET the environmental impact must be considered. • MAC Design: VANET generally use the shared medium to communicate hence the MAC design is the key issue. Many approaches have been given like TDMA, SDMA, and CSMA etc. IEEE 802.11 adopted the CSMA based Mac for VANET. • Security: As VANET provides the road safety applications which are life critical therefore security of these messages must be satisfied SECURITY ISSUES IN VANET : Among all the challenges of the VANET, security got less attention so far. VANET packets contains life critical information hence it is necessary to make sure that these packets are not
- 2. inserted or modified by the attacker; likewise the liability of drivers should also be established that they inform the traffic environment correctly and within time. Real time Constraint: VANET is time critical where safety related message should be delivered with 100ms transmission delay. So to achieve real time constraint, fast cryptographic algorithm should be used. Message and entity authentication must be done in time. • Data Consistency Liability: In VANET even authenticate node can perform malicious activities that can cause accidents or disturb the network. Hence a mechanism should be designed to avoid this inconsistency. Correlation among the received data from different node on particular information may avoid this type of inconsistency. • Low tolerance for error: Some protocols are designed on the basis of probability. VANET uses life critical information on which action is performed in very short time. A small error in probabilistic algorithm may cause harm. Security requirements in VANET : VANET must satisfy some security requirements before they are deployed. A security system in VANET should satisfy the following requirements: • Authentication: Authentication ensures that the message is generated by the legitimate user. In VANET a vehicle reacts upon the information came from the other vehicle hence authentication must be satisfied. • Availability: Availability requires that the information must be available to the legitimate users. DoS Attacks can bring down the network and hence information cannot be shared. • Non-Repudiation: Non-repudiation means a node cannot deny that he/she does not transmit the message. It may be crucial to determine the correct sequence in crash reconstruction.