"Securing Vehicular Communications"

Panos Papadimitratos, EPFL Institute of Communication Systems

In this talk, we discuss this new and uniquely constrained problem: how to secure vehicular communications. First, we discuss design principles and requirements as well as elements of a secure VCs architecture. Then, we present mechanisms to enhance privacy yet provide strong security; evict misbehaving or faulty nodes; and, extend the traditional notion of trust to data-centric trust, that is, attribute trustworthiness to node-reported data per se. The presented results reflect recent work, jointly with researchers of the Univ. of Maryland, the Pol. of Torino, and the SeVeCom and Car-2-Car communication consortia.