Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Eletrónica Telecomunicações e Informática Universidade de Aveiro Aveiro Portugal
2. Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro Portugal
3. International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory Braga Portugal
4. Department of Computer Science University of Minho Braga Portugal
5. Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Porto Portugal
Abstract
AbstractSecure Multiparty Computation (SMC) enables multiple parties to cooperate securely without compromising their privacy. SMC has the potential to offer solutions for privacy obstacles in vehicular networks. However, classical SMC implementations suffer from efficiency and security challenges. To address this problem, two quantum communication technologies, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Oblivious Key Distribution were utilised. These technologies supply symmetric and oblivious keys respectively, allowing fast and secure inter‐vehicular communications. These quantum technologies are integrated with the Faster Malicious Arithmetic Secure Computation with Oblivious Transfer (MASCOT) protocol to form a Quantum Secure Multiparty Computation (QSMC) platform. A lane change service is implemented in which vehicles broadcast private information about their intention to exit the highway. The proposed QSMC approach provides unconditional security even against quantum computer attacks. Moreover, the communication cost of the quantum approach for the lane change use case has decreased by 97% when compared to the classical implementation. However, the computation cost has increased by 42%. For open space scenarios, the reduction in communication cost is especially important, because it conserves bandwidth in the free‐space radio channel, outweighing the increase in computation cost.
Publisher
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Subject
Theoretical Computer Science,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Science Applications,Computer Networks and Communications,Computational Theory and Mathematics