Mitigating DoS Attacks Against Pseudonymous Authentication Through Puzzle-Based Co-Authentication in 5G-VANET

The upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) networks can provide ultra-reliable ultra-low latency vehicle-to-everything for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) to promote road safety, traffic management, information dissemination, and automatic driving for drivers and passengers. However, 5G-VANET also attracts tremendous security and privacy concerns. Although several pseudonymous authentication schemes have been proposed for VANET, the expensive cost for their initial authentication may cause serious denial of service (DoS) attacks, which furthermore enables to do great harm to real space via VANET. Motivated by this, a puzzle-based co-authentication (PCA) scheme is proposed here. In the PCA scheme, the Hash puzzle is carefully designed to mitigate DoS attacks against the pseudonymous authentication process, which is facilitated through collaborative verification. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed scheme is approved by performance analysis based on theory and experimental results.