16 research outputs found
Development and Performance Evaluation of a Connected Vehicle Application Development Platform (CVDeP)
Connected vehicle (CV) application developers need a development platform to build,
test and debug real-world CV applications, such as safety, mobility, and environmental
applications, in edge-centric cyber-physical systems. Our study objective is to develop
and evaluate a scalable and secure CV application development platform (CVDeP)
that enables application developers to build, test and debug CV applications in realtime.
CVDeP ensures that the functional requirements of the CV applications meet the
corresponding requirements imposed by the specific applications. We evaluated the
efficacy of CVDeP using two CV applications (one safety and one mobility application)
and validated them through a field experiment at the Clemson University Connected
Vehicle Testbed (CU-CVT). Analyses prove the efficacy of CVDeP, which satisfies the
functional requirements (i.e., latency and throughput) of a CV application while
maintaining scalability and security of the platform and applications
Quantum Cyber-Attack on Blockchain-based VANET
Blockchain-based Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is widely considered as
secure communication architecture for a connected transportation system. With
the advent of quantum computing, there are concerns regarding the vulnerability
of this architecture against cyber-attacks. In this study, a potential threat
is investigated in a blockchain-based VANET, and a corresponding quantum
cyber-attack is developed. Specifically, a quantum impersonation attack using
Quantum-Shor algorithm is developed to break the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA)
encrypted digital signatures of VANET and thus create a threat for the
trust-based blockchain scheme of VANET. A blockchain-based VANET,
vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, and vehicular mobility are simulated
using OMNET++, the extended INET library, and vehicles-in-network simulation
(VEINS) along with simulation of urban mobility (SUMO), respectively. A small
key RSA based message encryption is implemented using IBM Qiskit, which is an
open-source quantum software development kit. The findings reveal that the
quantum cyber-attack, example, impersonation attack is able to successfully
break the trust chain of a blockchain-based VANET. This highlights the need for
a quantum secured blockchain.Comment: This paper consists of 10 pages with 7 figures. It has been submitted
to IEEE Internet of Things Journa