Tut6: Security and Privacy for V2X Communications

Virtual Program Link: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2336319/ACC26BDB1E8C143D9825827B4FE8E5BF

Instructor: Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Abstract: In recent years, vehicular networks have been considered as a promising solution to achieve better traffic management and to improve driving experience of a driver. Vehicular networks can provide many services to facilitate road safety for vehicles and traffic management, e.g. on-road traffic information exchange and location based services. Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) are specifically designed for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications in vehicular networks , and recently the cellular network has shown great potential to support vehicular networks with better performance and more applications. Due to the wireless nature of V2X communications, how to secure V2X communications and guarantee privacy of users are great challenges which hampered the implementation of vehicular networks. Many solutions have been proposed by researchers in last two decades. In this tutorial, we present a comprehensive survey on the state-of-the-art solutions concerning security and privacy for V2X communications. For security, detailed discussions on cryptography based schemes and trust based schemes are provided. For privacy, we summarize and compare general solutions in preserving identity privacy and location privacy. As another candidate for vehicular networks , cellular based V2X communications have shown many advantages over DSRC, and the oncoming fifth generation cellular technology are going to provide more possibilities to vehicular networks . Thus, security architectures and solutions for cellular based communications are also illustrated and discussed. Finally, we summarize the remaining challenges and point out future research directions.

Instructor Biography

Yi Qian
Bio: Yi Qian is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Prior to joining UNL, he worked in the telecommunications industry, academia, and the government. His research interests include information assurance and network security, network design, network modeling, simulation and performance analysis for next generation wireless networks, wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, vehicular networks, smart grid communication networks, broadband satellite networks, optical networks, high-speed networks and the Internet. He is serving on the editorial board for several international journals and magazines, including serving as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He was the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee for Communications and Information Security 2014-2015. He is the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE ICC 2018. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Vehicular Technology Society & a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Communications Society.

Prof. Qian received the Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award in 2011, the Holling Family Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012, the Holling Family Distinguished Teaching/Advising/Mentoring Award in 2018, and the Holling Family Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovative Use of Instructional Technology in 2018, all from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In the recent years, he has been a frequent speaker on many topics in his research areas in various venues and forums, as a keynote speaker, a tutorial presenter, and an invited lecturer.