AMOEBA: Robust Location Privacy Scheme for VANET

Abstract— Communication messages in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) can be used to locate and track vehicles. While tracking can be beneficial for vehicle navigation, it can also lead to threats on location privacy of vehicle user. In this paper, we address the problem of mitigating unauthorized tracking of vehicles based on their broadcast communications, to enhance the user location privacy in VANET. Compared to other mobile networks, VANET exhibits unique characteristics in terms of vehicular mobility constraints, application requirements such as a safety message broadcast period, and vehicular network connectivity. Based on the observed characteristics, we propose a scheme called AMOEBA, that provides location privacy by utilizing the group navigation of vehicles. By simulating vehicular mobility in freeways and streets, the performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated under VANET application constraints and two passive adversary models. We make use of vehicular groups for ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: JSAC
• Authors: Krishna Sampigethaya, Mingyan Li, Leping Huang, Radha Poovendran
• Keywords: JSAC 2007, Location Privacy, Vehicles, Vehicular