Security Issues of Solar Energy Harvesting Road Side Unit (RSU)

Abstract

Vehicular network security had spanned and covered a wide range of security related issues. However solar energy harvesting Road Side Unit (RSU) security was not defined clearly, it is this aspect that is considered in this paper. In this work, we will suggest an RSU security model to protect it against different internal and external threats. The main goal is to protect RSU specific data (needed for its operation) as well as its functionality and accessibility. The suggested RSU security model must responds to many objectives, it should ensure that the administrative information exchanged is correct and undiscoverable (information authenticity and privacy), the source (e.g., VANET server) is who he claims to be (message integrity and source authentication) and the system is robust and available (using Intrusion Detection System (IDS)). In this paper, we suggest many techniques to strength RSU security and they were prototyped using an experimental model based on Ubicom IP2022 network processor development kit.

Realisation of a self‐powered, secured and robust disaster recovery network

“…Intrusion detection frameworks must be equipped for separating amongst regular and bizarre conduct in order to acknowledge abnormal actions in the long run. There are three noteworthy strategies that an intrusion detection framework can utilise to order activities; a signature‐based IDS, an anomaly‐based IDSs and a behavioural‐based IDS [53]. The suggested signature‐based IDS situated is in light of the open source SNORT IDS.…”

GVANET project: an efficient deployment of a self‐powered, reliable and secured VANET infrastructure

“…The efforts toward the evolution of a GVANET infrastructure [13][14][15][16][17][18][19]: In the past few years, several studies deal with the different issues related to the development of a GVANET infrastructure. The aim is to propose a self-powered RSUs [13], supplied with efficient power management strategies [14][15][16], protected using different security methods [17,18] and localised in any place without considering the power supply availability [19]. This feature would enhance the network connectivity and extends the area covered by the VANET infrastructure.…”

“…1c. (d) Protecting the RSU using an embedded cooperative-hybrid intrusion detection system (ECHIDS) [17,18]. Service availability could be gotten by guarding the framework contrary to the differing classes of attacks utilising an IDS.…”

Securing solar energy‐harvesting road‐side unit using an embedded cooperative‐hybrid intrusion detection system

“…According to our earlier analysis in [38], optimised link state routing (OLSR) protocol gives the best performance compared with the other ad hoc routing protocols when working in a non‐stationary ad hoc topology, so that it was adopted in our simulation model. The OLSR mechanisms are regulated by a set of parameters predefined in the OLSR RFC 3626 [4] standard and it was adopted in our simulation model, see Table 8. To simplify the simulation model, the RSUs were assumed to be identical and subjected to the same road traffic conditions.…”

“…From the above discussion, it is clear that the RSU plays a major role in the proposed green VANET infrastructure and hence, the security of this device must be a priority [4, 5]. The RSUs are subjected to a plethora of network traffic conditions and security attacks, which can seriously affect their integrity, performance and power consumption and hence their availability.…”