An Effective Scheme for Location Privacy in VANETs

Location privacy is an important concern in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. Anonymity is one of commonly adopted solution to protect location privacy. In this paper, the authors present a mechanism based on an ID-based cryptosystem in order to ensure vehicles' anonymity by pseudonyms. In this mechan...

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Published inJournal of networks Vol. 9; no. 8; p. 2239
Main Authors Xingjun, Shi, Huibin, Xu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oulu Academy Publisher 01.08.2014
Subjects
Ad hoc networks
Networks
Preservation
Privacy
Simulation
Vehicles
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Summary:Location privacy is an important concern in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. Anonymity is one of commonly adopted solution to protect location privacy. In this paper, the authors present a mechanism based on an ID-based cryptosystem in order to ensure vehicles' anonymity by pseudonyms. In this mechanism, they adopt Pseudonyms Synchronously Change scheme, which improves anonymity. In the schemes, vehicles change pseudonym at different times and locations. The simulation result demonstrates our schemes have superior performance on location privacy preservation.
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ISSN:1796-2056
1796-2056
DOI:10.4304/jnw.9.8.2239-2244