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A Privacy-Preserving Location Assurance Protocol for Location-Aware Services in VANETs

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A location-aware service on a vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is to provide services that distribute on-demand information for a certain geographic area of interest by taking advantage of vehicular communications. In this paper, we propose a secure and location assurance protocol in order to guarantee privacy preservation in vehicular communications and trustworthiness of location-aware services over VANETs. The proposed protocol enables a message verifier to have confidence that the location-aware information was responded from the vehicles passing through the target location area of interest without violating location privacy of the responders. To achieve our security objectives, we consider a pseudonym-based privacy-preserving authentication and a hierarchical identity-based cryptographic scheme. Furthermore, we demonstrate experimental results to confirm the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed protocol.

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  1. Department of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

    Youngho Park & Kyung-Hyune Rhee

  2. Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Chul Sur

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Park, Y., Sur, C. & Rhee, KH. A Privacy-Preserving Location Assurance Protocol for Location-Aware Services in VANETs. Wireless Pers Commun 61, 779–791 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0432-2

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