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An efficient group signature based certificate less verification scheme for vehicular ad-hoc network

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Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is widely applied in transportation applications to ensure safety and security during road transportation. In VANET, all the information’s are interchanged among vehicles with the available infrastructure on the roadside to form an ad-hoc network. In VANET, due to its communication in an open medium achieving the major security goals like integrity, authenticity, anonymity and traceability are the major concern. Since, there are numerous vehicles in the network generation and verification of digital signature requires high storage along with and verification time. To overcome all these issues, in this paper an Efficient group signature based certificate less verification scheme (EGSCVS) has been proposed to provide lightweight end to end authentication in the network. The proposed EGSCVS employs certificate less aggregation signature mechanism which is based on Elliptical curve cryptography to optimize the storage and reduce the overhead in terms of communication and computation during authentication process. Moreover, the proposed protocol utilizes the Random oracle model (ROM) to provide the formal security analysis. The implementation of the proposed protocol has been implemented using NS3 simulator with realistic simulation parameters. The simulation result shows that the proposed protocol improves the transmission overhead by 53.16%, computational cost by 48.75%, communication cost by 42.81%, signing delay by 55.17%, verification delay by 28.38% and aggregate verification delay by 45.35%.

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Jayashree, S., Kumar, S.V.N.S. An efficient group signature based certificate less verification scheme for vehicular ad-hoc network. Wireless Netw (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-024-03709-1

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