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A F M SUAIB AKHTER has completed B. Sc. in Computer Science and Information Technology (CIT) from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh in 2008 and Master in Information Technology from University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2012. He was lecturer of Computer Science and Engineering department, Dhaka International University, Bangladesh and in Manarat International University, Bangladesh. Currently he is working as a researcher at Sakarya University, Turkey. His area of research focuses on wireless communication, vehicular Ad hoc networks, intelligent vehicles, network security, distributed system, machine learning, etc. Mr Akhter was a recipient of the Turkish Government Scholarship and the OIC scholarship.
The efficiency of cooperative communication protocols to increase the reliability and range of transmission for Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is proven, but identity verification and communication security are required to be ensured. Though it is difficult to maintain strong network connections between vehicles because of there high mobility, with the help of cooperative communication, it is possible to increase the communication efficiency, minimise delay, packet loss, and Packet Dropping Rate (PDR). However, cooperating with unknown or unauthorized vehicles could result in information theft, privacy leakage, vulnerable to different security attacks, etc. In this paper, a blockchain based secure and privacy preserving authentication protocol is proposed for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Blockchain is utilized to store and manage the authentication information in a distributed and decentralized environment and developed on the Ethereum platform that uses a digital signature algorithm to ensure confidentiality, non-repudiation, integrity, and preserving the privacy of the IoVs. For optimized communication, transmitted services are categorized into emergency and optional services. Similarly, to optimize the performance of the authentication process, IoVs are categorized as emergency and general IoVs. The proposed cooperative protocol is validated by numerical analyses which show that the protocol successfully increases the system throughput and decreases PDR and delay. On the other hand, the authentication protocol requires minimum storage as well as generates low computational overhead that is suitable for the IoVs with limited computer resources.
A. Akhter; Mohiuddin Ahmed; A. Shah; Adnan Anwar; A. Kayes; Ahmet Zengin. A Blockchain-Based Authentication Protocol for Cooperative Vehicular Ad Hoc Network. Sensors 2021, 21, 1273 .
AMA StyleA. Akhter, Mohiuddin Ahmed, A. Shah, Adnan Anwar, A. Kayes, Ahmet Zengin. A Blockchain-Based Authentication Protocol for Cooperative Vehicular Ad Hoc Network. Sensors. 2021; 21 (4):1273.
Chicago/Turabian StyleA. Akhter; Mohiuddin Ahmed; A. Shah; Adnan Anwar; A. Kayes; Ahmet Zengin. 2021. "A Blockchain-Based Authentication Protocol for Cooperative Vehicular Ad Hoc Network." Sensors 21, no. 4: 1273.
Existing research shows that Cluster-based Medium Access Control (CB-MAC) protocols perform well in controlling and managing Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET), but requires ensuring improved security and privacy preserving authentication mechanism. To this end, we propose a multi-level blockchain-based privacy-preserving authentication protocol. The paper thoroughly explains the formation of the authentication centers, vehicles registration, and key generation processes. In the proposed architecture, a global authentication center (GAC) is responsible for storing all vehicle information, while Local Authentication Center (LAC) maintains a blockchain to enable quick handover between internal clusters of vehicle. We also propose a modified control packet format of IEEE 802.11 standards to remove the shortcomings of the traditional MAC protocols. Moreover, cluster formation, membership and cluster-head selection, and merging and leaving processes are implemented while considering the safety and non-safety message transmission to increase the performance. All blockchain communication is performed using high speed 5G internet while encrypted information is transmitted while using the RSA-1024 digital signature algorithm for improved security, integrity, and confidentiality. Our proof-of-concept implements the authentication schema while considering multiple virtual machines. With detailed experiments, we show that the proposed method is more efficient in terms of time and storage when compared to the existing methods. Besides, numerical analysis shows that the proposed transmission protocols outperform traditional MAC and benchmark methods in terms of throughput, delay, and packet dropping rate.
A. Akhter; Mohiuddin Ahmed; A. Shah; Adnan Anwar; Ahmet Zengin. A Secured Privacy-Preserving Multi-Level Blockchain Framework for Cluster Based VANET. Sustainability 2021, 13, 400 .
AMA StyleA. Akhter, Mohiuddin Ahmed, A. Shah, Adnan Anwar, Ahmet Zengin. A Secured Privacy-Preserving Multi-Level Blockchain Framework for Cluster Based VANET. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (1):400.
Chicago/Turabian StyleA. Akhter; Mohiuddin Ahmed; A. Shah; Adnan Anwar; Ahmet Zengin. 2021. "A Secured Privacy-Preserving Multi-Level Blockchain Framework for Cluster Based VANET." Sustainability 13, no. 1: 400.
A. F. M. Suaib Akhter; A. F. M. Shahen Shah; Mohiuddin Ahmed; Nour Moustafa; Unal Çavuşoğlu; Ahmet Zengin. A Secured Message Transmission Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. Computers, Materials & Continua 2021, 68, 229 -246.
AMA StyleA. F. M. Suaib Akhter, A. F. M. Shahen Shah, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Nour Moustafa, Unal Çavuşoğlu, Ahmet Zengin. A Secured Message Transmission Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. Computers, Materials & Continua. 2021; 68 (1):229-246.
Chicago/Turabian StyleA. F. M. Suaib Akhter; A. F. M. Shahen Shah; Mohiuddin Ahmed; Nour Moustafa; Unal Çavuşoğlu; Ahmet Zengin. 2021. "A Secured Message Transmission Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks." Computers, Materials & Continua 68, no. 1: 229-246.