Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Payment Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Articles uri icon

authors

  • SIERRA CAMARA, JOSE MARIA
  • ZEADALLY, SHERALI
  • TELLEZ ISAAC, JESUS

publication date

  • June 2010

start page

  • 209

end page

  • 233

issue

  • 2

volume

  • 10

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1389-5753

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1572-9362

abstract

  • Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are envisioned to support the development of a wide range of attractive applications such as payment services which require the design of payment systems that
    satisfy additional requirements associated with VANETs. The wide range
    of scenarios (with or without connectivity restriction) arising from
    vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside communications have opened up
    new security challenges which must be considered by payment system
    designers to achieve the same security capabilities independent of the
    scenario where payment occurs. We propose and implement a new payment
    protocol (called KCMS-VAN protocol) for those scenarios where the client
    cannot communicate directly with the credit card issuer (the client's
    financial institution) for authentication. Our proposed protocol uses
    symmetric-key operations which require low computational power and can
    be processed much faster than asymmetric ones. We also present a
    performance evaluation of the proposed payment protocol and the results
    obtained demonstrate that optimal performance can be achieved with it.