Secure Data Communication in Drone Enabled Internet of Vehicles

Abstract

Internet of Vehicle (IoV) is one of the demanding and new area of research based on Internet, cloud, edge and 5G services. However, these networks are suffered with some congestion, routing and security issues especially in urban areas and cause of delay and computational complexities issues and lead to late messages delivery or data congestion. The Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAV) or drones are introduced to facilitates these networks by collecting the data from road nodes and forward to the Road Side Units (RSU) or to the backbone architecture for decision making. Although, this strategy is more useful especially for data routing and decision making but this strategy will open new threats and challenges in the form of security, user privacy and other malicious activities. These services are suffered from various different types of threats and malicious attacks in the network because these networks are open in nature and always an easy task for attackers. The traditional security and authentication mechanisms have not been feasible due to their complex and heavy computational processing. This study presents a novel Secure Data Communication in Drone Enables Internet of Vehicle (SDCD-IoV), solution for authentication among vehicle nodes, RSU and trust authority database in drones enable IoV networks. The proposed system is based on three main phases including initialization, registration, and authentication. The proposed solution provides the authentication mechanism to fulfil the security requirements of drone enable IoV networks and provides node anonymity where vehicle nodes and drones are protected the identity during data transmission. The second important contribution of proposed solution is unlikability where the network prevents them from adversary. Traceability and mutual authentication are also considered where nodes check malicious action and real identity of nodes recovered and verifying the messages from other entities. This solution is best option to secure the data communication among vehicle nodes and drones. The proposed solution is tested in terms of time cost, computational cost, overhead in the presence of different number of nodes and velocities. The proposed solution achieved the high performance as compared to existing solutions.