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Man-In-The-Middle Attacks in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Evaluating the Impact of Attackers' Strategies

Ahmad, Farhan, Adnane, Asma, Franqueira, Virginia N.L., Kurugollu, Fatih, Liu, Lu (2018) Man-In-The-Middle Attacks in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Evaluating the Impact of Attackers' Strategies. Sensors, 18 (11). pp. 1-19. ISSN 1424-8220. (doi:10.3390/s18114040) (KAR id:77171)

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET), a vital component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology, relies on communication between dynamically connected vehicles and static Road Side Units (RSU) to offer various applications (e.g., collision avoidance alerts, steep-curve warnings and infotainment). VANET has a massive potential to improve traffic efficiency, and road safety by exchanging critical information between nodes (vehicles and RSU), thus reducing the likelihood of traffic accidents. However, this communication between nodes is subject to a variety of attacks, such as Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks which represent a major risk in VANET. It happens when a malicious node intercepts or tampers with messages exchanged between legitimate nodes. In this paper, we studied the impact on network performance of different strategies which attackers can adopt to launch MITM attacks in VANET, such as fleet or random strategies. In particular, we focus on three goals of MITM attacks—message delayed, message dropped and message tampered. The simulation results indicate that these attacks have a severe influence on the legitimate nodes in VANET as the network experience high number of compromised messages, high end-to-end delays and preeminent packet losses.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.3390/s18114040
Uncontrolled keywords: Vehicular Ad-Hoc network; security; Man-In-The-Middle Attack; smart cities; simulation; Intelligent Transportation System; Internet-of-Things.
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Virginia Franqueira
Date Deposited: 16 Oct 2019 10:49 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 18:41 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/77171 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Franqueira, Virginia N.L..

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1332-9115
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