Research Area: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), which are a subclass of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), received a widespread attention during the last decades. With these promising set of safety applications, which are the main reason why they were developed, VANETs are considered as a tremendous support for the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, several key issues remain to be solved before VANET becomes fully applicable; one of them being privacy preservation. To fulfill safety-requirements in VANETs, the vehicle needs to broadcast its status wirelessly. Consequently, any adversary can hear the broadcast messages at the aim of analyzing them, identifying, tracking and generating profile of his target. In other words, privacy of individuals may be seriously breached in VANETs if no safety measures were been taken. Using pseudonyms instead of the real identities of individuals, and changing them periodically during the communication is a promising solution for such crucial problems. There is a significant body of research work addressing this issue and a lot of researchers proposed various privacy protections basing on pseudonym change strategies. In this survey paper, we present an introduction to the privacy problem and give a recent and detailed state of the art of the different suggested pseudonym change strategies and approaches. We also propose a novel taxonomy to classify these strategies to diverse concepts. Finally, we discuss, give future directions and open issues and mention some of the observations that lead to better identify this problem for better future strategies.
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Author(s) Name: Messaoud Babaghayou, Nabila Labraoui, Ado Adamou Abba Ari, Nasreddine Lagraa, Mohamed Amine Ferrag View in Scopus
Journal name: Journal of Information Security and Applications
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Publisher name: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jisa.2020.102618
Volume Information: Volume 55, December 2020, 102618
