Research Area:  Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract:

The evolving of Fifth Generation (5G) networks is becoming more readily available as a major driver of the growth of new applications and business models. Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)represent the key enablers of 5G technology with the development of next generation intelligent vehicular networks and applications. In recent years, researchers have focused on the integration of SDN and VANET, and look at different topics related to the architecture, the benefits of software-defined VANET services and the new functionalities to adapt them. However, security and robustness of the complete architecture is still questionable and have been largely negleted. Moreover, the deployment and integration of novel entities and several architectural components drive new security threats and this http URL this paper, first we survey the state-of-the-art SDN based Vehicular ad-hoc Network (SDVN) architectures for their net-working infrastructure design, functionalities, benefits, and challenges. Then we discuss these SDVN architectures against major security threats that violate the key security services such as availability, confidentiality, authentication, and data integrity.We also propose different countermeasures to these threats.Finally, we discuss the lessons learned with the directions of future research work towards provisioning stringent security and privacy solutions in future SDVN architectures. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive work that presents such a survey and analysis on SDVNs in the era of future generation networks (e.g., 5G, and Information centric networking) and applications (e.g., intelligent transportation system, and IoT-enabled advertising in VANETs).

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Author(s) Name:  Wafa Ben Jaballah, Mauro Conti, Chhagan Lal

Publisher name:  arXiv:1904.04577

DOI:  10.48550/arXiv.1904.04577

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Paper Link:   https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04577