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Vehicular Cloud Networks: Architecture, Applications and Security Issues

Authors :
Asma Adnane
Abir Awad
Farhan Ahmad
Muhammad Kazim
Source :
UCC
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
IEEE, 2015.

Abstract

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) are the largest real life application of ad-hoc networks where nodes are represented via fast moving vehicles. This paper introduces the future emerging technology, i.e., Vehicular Cloud Networking (VCN) where vehicles and adjacent infrastructure merge with traditional internet clouds to offer different applications ranging from low sized applications to very complex applications. VCN is composed of three types of clouds: Vehicular cloud, Infrastructure cloud and traditional Back-End (IT) cloud. We introduced these clouds via a three tier architecture along with their operations and characteristics. We have proposed use cases of each cloud tier that explain how it is practically created and utilised while taking the vehicular mobility in consideration. Moreover, it is critical to ensure security, privacy and trust of VCN network and its assets. Therefore, to describe the security of VCN, we have provided an in-depth analysis of different threats related to each tier of VCN. The threats related to vehicular cloud and infrastructure cloud are categorized according to their assets, i.e., vehicles, adjacent infrastructure, wireless communication, vehicular messages, and vehicular cloud threats. Similarly, the Back-End cloud threats are categorized into data and network threats. The possible implications of these threats and their effects on various components of VCN are also explained in detail.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........04e20971bd4344d05a504a8a840f9ac3
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/ucc.2015.101