Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Rogue Node Detection Scheme for Fog Computing

In the last few decades, urban areas across the world have experienced rapid growth in transportation technology with a subsequent increase in transport-related challenges. These challenges have increased our need to employ technology for creating more intelligent solutions. One of the essential tools used to address challenges in traffic is providing vehicles with information about traffic conditions in nearby areas. Vehicle ad-hoc networks (VANETs) allow vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication with the aim of providing safe and efficient transportation. Since drivers might make life-critical decisions based on information provided by other vehicles, dealing with rogue vehicles that send invalid data or breach users’ privacy is an essential security issue in VANETs. This paper proposes a novel privacy-preserving vehicular rogue node detection scheme using fog computing. The proposed scheme improves vehicle privacy, communication between vehicles, and computation efficiency by avoiding the exchange of traffic data between vehicles, allowing communication only through roadside units (RSUs). This scheme also proposes an RSU authentication mechanism, along with a mechanism that would allow RSUs to detect and eliminate vehicles providing false traffic data, which will improve the accuracy and efficiency of VANETs. The proposed scheme is analyzed and evaluated using simulation, which presents significant improvements for data processing, accurately detecting rogue vehicles, minimizing overhead, and immunizing the system against colluding vehicles.