Vehicular communications disclose rich information about the vehicles and their whereabouts. Pseudonymous authentication secures communication while enhancing user privacy. To enhance location privacy, cryptographic mix-zones were proposed to facilitate vehicles covertly transition to new ephemeral credentials. The resilience to (syntactic and semantic) pseudonym linking (attacks) highly depends on the geometry of the mix-zones, mobility patterns, vehicle density, and arrival rates. We introduce a tracking algorithm for linking pseudonyms before and after a cryptographically protected mix-zone. Our experimental results show that an eavesdropper, leveraging standardized vehicular communication messages and road layout, could successfully link ≈73% of pseudonyms during non-rush hours and ≈62% of pseudonyms during rush hours after vehicles change their pseudonyms in a mix-zone. To mitigate such inference attacks, we present a novel cooperative mix-zone scheme that enhances user privacy regardless of the vehicle mobility patterns, vehicle density, and arrival rate to the mix-zone. A subset of vehicles, termed relaying vehicles, are selected to be responsible for emulating non-existing vehicles. Such vehicles cooperatively disseminate decoy traffic without affecting safety-critical operations: with 50% of vehicles as relaying vehicles, the probability of linking pseudonyms (for the entire interval) drops from ≈68% to ≈18%. On average, this imposes 28 ms extra computation overhead, per second, on the Road-Side Units (RSUs) and 4.67 ms extra computation overhead, per second, on the (relaying) vehicle side; it also introduces 1.46 KB/sec extra communication overhead by (relaying) vehicles and 45 KB/sec by RSUs for the dissemination of decoy traffic. Thus, user privacy is enhanced at the cost of low computation and communication overhead. ; QC 20210323


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    Titel :

    Cooperative Location Privacy in Vehicular Networks : Why Simple Mix-zones are not Enough


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-01-01


    Anmerkungen:

    Scopus 2-s2.0-85097953773



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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    DDC:    629



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