SDSS: Secure Data Sharing Scheme for Edge Enabled IoV Networks

With the large-scale deployment of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and 5G technologies, it is inevitable to share data frequently for superior in-vehicle services. However, due to the dynamically changing and widely distributed Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), data sharing still faces challenges in security, efficiency, and reliability. In this paper, we propose a secure and reliable data-sharing scheme (SDSS) for edge-enabled IoV networks. It assigns multiple attribute authorities to alleviate the management burden and support a large attribute universe catering to the various services in IoV. To enhance efficiency and flexibility, edge computing is introduced for quickly responding to vehicles’ requests and assisting resource-constrained vehicle computation. And an online/offline mechanism is designed to further alleviate the computational pressure of sharing data online. In addition, we put forward a cooperative key generation approach to guarantee the security of users’ private keys. The security analysis proves that SDSS ensures resistance to collusion attacks and indistinguishability under chosen-ciphertext attacks (IND-CCA). Moreover, it can avoid the single point of failure and resist denial of service (DoS) attacks with the help of multiple distributed edge nodes. The experiment demonstrates SDSS is practicable for IoV data sharing.