Security and Privacy in Vehicular Social Networks

TL;DR

This paper surveys the current state of security and privacy challenges in Vehicular Social Networks, emphasizing solutions for P2P interactions and the increasing importance of vehicle-to-vehicle communication for diverse applications.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of security and privacy architectures in VSNs, highlighting challenges and proposing solutions to facilitate standardization and deployment.

Findings

Existing solutions can address VSN-specific security challenges

Security and privacy concerns are heightened with new vehicle-to-vehicle applications

Solutions can improve adoption of VSN applications

Abstract

We surveyed and presented the state-of-the-art VC systems, security and privacy architectures and technologies, emphasizing on security and privacy challenges and their solutions for P2P interactions in VSNs towards standardization and deployment. We note that beyond safety applications that have drawn a lot of attention in VC systems, there is significant and rising interest in vehicle-to-vehicle interaction for a range of transportation efficiency and infotainment applications, notably LBS as well as a gamut of services by mobile providers. While this enriches the VC systems and the user experience, security and privacy concerns are also intensified. This is especially so, considering (i) the privacy risk from the exposure of the users to the service providers, and (ii) the security risk from the interaction with malicious or selfish and thus misbehaving users or infrastructure. We showed existing solutions can in fact evolve and address the VSN-specific challenges, and improve or even accelerate the adoption of VSN applications.