Visible to the public VPKIaaS: A Highly-Available and Dynamically-Scalable Vehicular Public-Key Infrastructure

TitleVPKIaaS: A Highly-Available and Dynamically-Scalable Vehicular Public-Key Infrastructure
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsNoroozi, Hamid, Khodaei, Mohammad, Papadimitratos, Panos
Conference NameProceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Security & Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-5731-9
KeywordsAvailability, cloud, composability, Container Orchestration, identity and credential management, Micro-service, privacy, pubcrawl, Scalability, security, security scalability, VPKI
AbstractThe central building block of secure and privacy-preserving Vehicular Communication (VC) systems is a Vehicular Public-Key Infrastructure (VPKI), which provides vehicles with multiple anonymized credentials, termed pseudonyms. These pseudonyms are used to ensure message authenticity and integrity while preserving vehicle (and thus passenger) privacy. In the light of emerging large-scale multi-domain VC environments, the efficiency of the VPKI and, more broadly, its scalability are paramount. In this extended abstract, we leverage the state-of-the-art VPKI system and enhance its functionality towards a highly-available and dynamically-scalable design; this ensures that the system remains operational in the presence of benign failures or any resource depletion attack, and that it dynamically scales out, or possibly scales in, according to the requests' arrival rate. Our full-blown implementation on the Google Cloud Platform shows that deploying a VPKI for a large-scale scenario can be cost-effective, while efficiently issuing pseudonyms for the requesters.
URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3212480.3226100
DOI10.1145/3212480.3226100
Citation Keynoroozi_vpkiaas:_2018