Research Interests

• Cybersecurity

• Applied Cryptography

• Intelligent System Security

Security and Privacy in V2X Communications:

Present-day vehicles are not only envisaged for transportation, but also practiced for data analytics through different types of operations, such as data collection, computation, and transmission, applied in various applications and services for effective decision-making. Thus, smart transportation has various road-safety, entertainment, and business applications by exchanging meaningful information between different types of entities in the vehicular communication system. Due to extensive types of vehicular communications (V2X: V2V, V2R, V2S, V2M, and V2I), it offers advanced applications, collaboration, data awareness, and connectivity for better user experiences on the road. It is expected that connected car applications will increase at the fastest rate of 30 percent in the span of 2018 to 2023 due to ubiquitous connectivity with different smart city applications. Since messages are transmitted over a common channel, and vehicle users do not want to disclose their activities, it is necessary to exchange messages securely without compromising user privacy. Besides, a vehicle is involved in different types of vehicular communications with the limited computing power to perform different computations while on the move.

• Design vehicular communication protocols using low-cost cryptographic primitives to preserve authentication, integrity, confidentiality, and user anonymity.

• Perform security analysis for the proposed protocols to verify their robustness against different security and user privacy attributes through (i) attacks analysis, (ii) security proof, and (iii) automated security tool.

• Measure different computational parameters on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ test-bed set up and evaluate the performance efficiency of the proposed protocols.