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Security Approach for In-Vehicle Networking Using Blockchain Technology

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Advances in Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT 2019)

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Security is nonnegotiable key point for in-vehicle networking. However, all communication between Electrical Control Unites (ECU) still suffer from security drawbacks like highly processing time or preserving confidentiality, integrity and authenticity. In this paper, we propose an approach to assess the feasibility of a private Blockchain technology to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks. In this approach, we consider in-vehicle networking contains two parts, namely, central (or connected) gateway (cGW) and switches. cGW and switches are Blockchain nodes, wherein Blockchain consensus protocols are what keep all the nodes on a network synchronized with each other. The approach considers any communication type between ECUs as an individual event, which can be a transaction, data entry or application execution. A use case of secure communication between two ECUs is presented as an evaluation mechanism for securing in-vehicle networking using the proposed Blockchain approach.

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  1. Department of Computer Information and Sciences, Higher Colleges of Technology, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates

    Maher Salem, Moayyad Mohammed & Ali Rodan

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

  3. Computer Information Science (CIS), Higher Colleges of Technology, Fujairah Campus, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates

    Zahoor Ali Khan

  4. Faculty of Computer Information Science, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai Campus, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Hamad Odhabi

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Salem, M., Mohammed, M., Rodan, A. (2019). Security Approach for In-Vehicle Networking Using Blockchain Technology. In: Barolli, L., Xhafa, F., Khan, Z., Odhabi, H. (eds) Advances in Internet, Data and Web Technologies. EIDWT 2019. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12839-5_47

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