SELECT: Secure and Lightweight Context-Aware Mechanism for Smart Vehicular Networks

Intelligent vehicular networks offer a powerful platform for traffic control and data processing. However, reciprocal verification between vehicular devices is essential before initiating the connection, as exchanged messages are used in real-time vehicular applications and services. Though many communication protocols are designed to convey sensitive data, recently developed methods are still unable to withstand critical vehicular communication threats. Moreover, they require significant computational resources in a mobility environment. This paper presents a SEcure and LightwEight vehicular ContexT-aware (SELECT) mechanism applicable to vehicular networks. SELECT withstands critical security attacks for public channel communications. The test-bed findings show that SELECT outperforms relevant message communication approaches in computation time, energy consumption, communication overhead, and storage cost on the Raspberry Pi 3B device.