Towards to Beyond 5G Virtual Environment for Cybersecurity Testing in V2X Systems

Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication has an essential role for enhancing safety, effi-ciency, and overall driving experience of autonomous driving. To meet the requirements of autonomous driving, V2X demands high data-rate connectivity, per-ceived zero-latency, and high reliability. These char-acteristics are inherently linked to future-generation mobile communication technologies, such as Beyond 5G (B5G) also known as 6G. However, current so-lutions for simulating 5G communications lack inte-gration between the user and control planes, making the simulation not reliable since the 5G control plane functionalities are not taken into account. In this sense, this paper proposes a first contribution towards to the platform called Beyond 5G Virtual Environment for Cy-bersecurity Testing in V2X Systems (B5GCyberTestV2X) by integrating the 5G control plane from Open5GS and UERANSIM into the Simu5G simulator. The inclusion of the control plane in 5G urban mobility simulations increases the security and reliability of the V2X commu-nication service. Therefore, in order to show the impact of the 5G control plane, we validate a simulation with a scenario in the presence of a spoofer transmitting false warning information. As shown in our simulation, the 5G control plane does not allow the connection of the spoofer into 5G network, making the cybersecurity tests of 5G-based V2X communication more realistic.