Authentication for V2X Communication in
an Open-Source Plug-and-Play Platform


Minhye Seo+

 

Duksung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

mhseo@duksung.ac.kr

 

Abstract

Most cars today are made up of numerous electronic devices, which enable various user-friendly services such as autonomous driving. The car of the future will play a role as a platform for electronic systems, unlike fully built vehicles these days. In other words, on-vehicle devices with various functions produced by different companies will be freely attached to and detached from the vehicle, that is, in a plug-and-play (PnP) manner. However, if a PnP device produced by a malicious attacker is attached to a vehicle, the attacker can easily penetrate the in-vehicle network and take over the vehicle, which can pose a serious threat. In this paper, we propose for the first time PnP device authentication frameworks in the automotive open-source PnP platform, which allow only authorized PnP devices to access the in-vehicle network. We also develop a proof-of-concept (PoC) for the proposed authentication framework and show the experimental results of the PoC simulation to prove its feasibility.

Keywords: V2X communication, entity authentication, open-source Plug-and-Play, PnP platform

 

+: Corresponding author: Minhye Seo
Department of of Cyber Security, Duksung Women's University
33 Samyang-ro 144-gil, Dobong-gu, Seoul, 01369, Republic of Korea, Tel: +82-2-901-8840

 

Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS), 12(2): 1-20, May 2022
Received: February 22, 2022; Accepted: April 14, 2022; Published: May 31, 2022

DOI: 10.22667/JISIS.2022.05.31.001 [pdf]