MAR-Sybil: Cooperative RSU Based Detection and Prevention of Sybil Attacks in Routing Process of VANET

Abstract

VANET is a next generation communication technology where vehicles create an autonomous network with assistance of RSU (Road Side Units). VANET provides legitimate information to the users on the road, in order to increase the road and user's safety. It provides useful information to the vehicles about directions, location mapping, premises, etc. The fast propagation of emergency and local warning messages to the approaching vehicles will be helpful for preventing secondary accidents. If security of the network is not guaranteed, several attacks may occur, thereby alert messages may not reach to the RSUs on time or message may get spoof due to attack on it. Major attacks on emergency messages such as timing attack, spoofing attack, DoS attack, Sybil attack, etc. would be considered to mitigate and make the communication and infrastructure more secure. One of the major emergency message attack is Sybil, which is used by selfish message propagators to claim authenticity of their message by propagating with multiple identities. By deceiving other nodes with their false support using multiple identifies, they can achieve various purpose in network like vehicle re-routing, speed shift etc. This work proposes a RSU cooperative detection mechanism involving triangulation and fake propagation by RSU to identify the Sybil attacks in the VANET. The proposed methodology secures fast communication emergency messages to prevent secondary accidents by validating the message sources, nodes will accept only the messages from RSU which are digitally signed and source validated against Sybil nodes. The performance evaluation is made with existing methodology and effectiveness of the proposed methodology results demonstrated in article. The spatial location and trajectory of attacker is learnt effectively with RSU cooperation in the proposed work.