Authentication of Vehicles in Vehicular Clouds: An Agent-Based Approach

Abstract

Authentication of vehicle nodes in Vehicular Cloud (VC) network is a major aspect for providing and usage of services from cloud services providers. Most of the authentication methods use encryption for authenticating the user, which depends on the secret key. But for some reason if the key is compromised, then the complete authentication framework collapses. In this paper, we present a novel agent-based authentication framework which acts as a second layer of authentication process which follows the encryption. After the communication link is established, the framework is used to monitor the behavior of the vehicle node. Authentication agent’s performance is measured in terms of computational delay with number of attributes and test samples to show our proposed method takes very small delay in authenticating the user, which makes it appropriate for VC as time plays a crucial role.