Distinguished Lecture: Towards a Secure and Efficient Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET)

On Monday, Dec. 18, the IEEE New Jersey Coast Communications (COM019) Chapter is organizing an “online” distinguished lecture. Prof. Yu Cheng, Dept. of Elec. and Comput. Eng., Illinois Institute of Technology, will give a Webex presentation on secure and efficient vehicular adhoc networks (VANETs). This meeting is available online. Please register using the registration link:

https://events.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/49107

To join the meeting, please click on the Webex link below on Monday, Dec. 18, around 6:15 pm. The presentation will start at 6:30 pm.

Webex site: http://ieeemeetings.webex.com/meet/mmga-nj-coast-section

Select “connect by computer” for audio. In case of a bad audio connection, use the additional dial-in option:

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Telephone access information
  Meeting number :  590 457 855
  Access code    :  590 457 855

The title and abstract of the distinguished lecture presentation follow below.

Towards a Secure and Efficient Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET)
Prof. Yu Cheng, Dept. of Elec. and Comput. Eng., Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Abstract – Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have attracted a lot of attention due to their interesting and promising functionalities including vehicular safety, traffic management, entertainment, and location based services. Information security and privacy issues are important in VANETs. Many existing security solutions proposed for VANET suffer from the scalability issue, requiring either the storage of a large number of pseudonyms or centralized key management. In this talk, we will present a distributed key management framework based on group signature to provision privacy in VANETs. Distributed key management is expected to facilitate the revocation of malicious vehicles, maintenance of the system, and heterogeneous security policies, compared with the centralized key management. In particular, security protocols are developed to detect compromised road side units and their colluding malicious vehicles. Moreover, we address the issue of large computation overhead due to the group signature implementation. This talk also covers a secure cooperative data downloading application framework for paid services in VANETs. The proposed cooperative data downloading guarantees the receipt of the requested data file for each applicant vehicle passing a road side unit. Security and privacy solutions are developed to ensure applicants’ exclusive access to the applied data and privacy of the vehicles involved in the application.

Speaker(s): Dr. Yu Cheng,

Agenda:

6:15 p.m.  Login to the Webex site: http://ieeemeetings.webex.com/meet/mmga-nj-coast-section
6:30 p.m.  Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Yu Cheng
7:30 p.m.  Q&A

Location:
http://ieeemeetings.webex.com/meet/mmga-nj-coast-section
Meeting number: 590 457 855 Access code: 590 457 855
Monmouth County, New Jersey