Security Authentication Scheme for Vehicle-to-Everything Computing Task Offloading Environments.

Area of Science:

• Computer Science
• Cybersecurity
• Telecommunications Engineering

Background:

• Computational task offloading is crucial for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication systems.
• Security is a paramount challenge in V2X offloading, requiring authentication of entities and data protection.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose a novel security authentication scheme tailored for V2X computational task offloading.
• To ensure the legitimacy of vehicles and edge servers, and protect task data confidentiality and integrity.

Main Methods:

• Developed a new security authentication scheme for V2X environments.
• Conducted rigorous formal and informal security analyses.
• Verified the scheme's security using the AVISPA tool.
• Performed network simulations using NS-3 for performance evaluation.

Main Results:

• The proposed scheme demonstrates fundamental security properties essential for V2X environments.
• It effectively resists various known security threats and attacks.
• The scheme offers improved computational and communication overhead compared to existing solutions.
• NS-3 simulations confirmed favorable network-layer performance.

Conclusions:

• The developed scheme provides reliable and scalable security for V2X computational task offloading.
• It addresses critical security needs in dynamic V2X communication scenarios.
• The solution is well-suited for enhancing the security of future intelligent transportation systems.