Vehicular cloud networks: Architecture, applications and security issues
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University of Derby, Derby, UKSoftware Res. Inst., Athlone Inst. of Technol., Athlone, Ireland
Issue Date
2015-12-07
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Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) are the largest real life application of ad-hoc networks where nodes are represented via fast moving vehicles. This paper introduces the future emerging technology, i.e., Vehicular Cloud Networking (VCN) where vehicles and adjacent infrastructure merge with traditional internet clouds to offer different applications ranging from low sized applications to very complex applications. VCN is composed of three types of clouds: Vehicular cloud, Infrastructure cloud and traditional Back-End (IT) cloud. We introduced these clouds via a three tier architecture along with their operations and characteristics. We have proposed use cases of each cloud tier that explain how it is practically created and utilised while taking the vehicular mobility in consideration. Moreover, it is critical to ensure security, privacy and trust of VCN network and its assets. Therefore, to describe the security of VCN, we have provided an in-depth analysis of different threats related to each tier of VCN. The threats related to vehicular cloud and infrastructure cloud are categorized according to their assets, i.e., vehicles, adjacent infrastructure, wireless communication, vehicular messages, and vehicular cloud threats. Similarly, the Back-End cloud threats are categorized into data and network threats. The possible implications of these threats and their effects on various components of VCN are also explained in detail.Citation
F. Ahmad, M. Kazim, A. Adnane and A. Awad, "Vehicular Cloud Networks: Architecture, Applications and Security Issues," 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Limassol, 2015, pp. 571-576. doi: 10.1109/UCC.2015.101Publisher
IEEEJournal
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)DOI
10.1109/UCC.2015.101Additional Links
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7431476/Type
Meetings and ProceedingsLanguage
enISBN
978-0-7695-5697-0ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/UCC.2015.101