Incentive-Driven Approach for Misbehavior Avoidance in Vehicular Networks

For efficient and robust information exchange in the vehicular adhoc network,a secure and trusted incentive reward is needed to avoid and reduce the intensity of misbehaving nodes and congestion especially in the case where the periodic beacons exploit the channel.In addition,we cannot be sure that all vehicular nodes eagerly share their communication assets to the system for message dissemination without any rewards.Unfortunately,there may be some misbehaving nodes and due to their selfish and greedy approach,these nodes may not help others on the network.To deal with this challenge,trust-based misbehavior avoidance schemes are generally reflected as the capable resolution.In this paper,we employed a fair incentive mechanism for cooperation aware vehicular communication systems.In order to deploy a comprehensive credit based rewarding scheme,the proposed rewardbased scheme fully depends on secure and reliable cryptographic procedures.In order to achieve the security goals,we used the cryptographic scheme to generate a certified public key for the authenticity of every message exchange over the network.We evaluated the friction of misbehaving vehicles and the effect of rewarding schemes in context with honest messages dissemination over the network.

Construction and Optimization of TRNG Based Substitution Boxes for Block Encryption Algorithms

Internet of Things is an ecosystem of interconnected devices that are accessible through the internet.The recent research focuses on adding more smartness and intelligence to these edge devices.This makes them susceptible to various kinds of security threats.These edge devices rely on cryptographic techniques to encrypt the pre-processed data collected from the sensors deployed in the field.In this regard,block cipher has been one of the most reliable options through which data security is accomplished.The strength of block encryption algorithms against different attacks is dependent on its nonlinear primitive which is called Substitution Boxes.For the design of S-boxes mainly algebraic and chaos-based techniques are used but researchers also found various weaknesses in these techniques.On the other side,literature endorse the true random numbers for information security due to the reason that,true random numbers are purely non-deterministic.In this paper firstly a natural dynamical phenomenon is utilized for the generation of true random numbers based S-boxes.Secondly,a systematic literature review was conducted to know which metaheuristic optimization technique is highly adopted in the current decade for the optimization of S-boxes.Based on the outcome of Systematic Literature Review(SLR),genetic algorithm is chosen for the optimization of s-boxes.The results of our method validate that the proposed dynamic S-boxes are effective for the block ciphers.Moreover,our results showed that the proposed substitution boxes achieve better cryptographic strength as compared with state-of-the-art techniques.

Lightweight Key Management Scheme Using Fuzzy Extractor for Wireless Mobile Sensor Network

The mature design of wireless mobile sensor network makes it to be used in vast verities of applications including from home used to the security surveillance.All such types of applications based on wireless mobile sensor network are generally using real time data,most of them are interested in real time communication directly from cluster head of cluster instead of a base station in cluster network.This would be possible if an external user allows to directly access real time data from the cluster head in cluster wireless mobile sensor network instead of accessing data from base station.But this leads to a serious security breach and degrades the performance of any security protocol available in this domain.Most existing schemes for authentication and cluster key management for external users,exchange a number of messages between cluster head and base station to allow external to access real time data from the base station instead of cluster head.This increase communication cost and delay in such real time access information.To handle this critical issue in cluster wireless mobile sensor network,we propose a lightweight authentication and key management scheme using a fuzzy extractor.In this scheme,any external user can access data directly from the cluster head of any cluster without the involvement of the base station.The proposed scheme only uses the one-way hash functions and bitwise XOR operations,apart from the fuzzy extractor method for the user biometric verification at the login phase.The presented scheme supports scalability for an increasing number of nodes using polynomials.The proposed scheme increases the life-time of the network by decreasing the key pool size.