报告简介：

Vehicular communication technologies have been envisioned as a promising approach for improving road safety, enhancing driving experience, and improving traffic management. In the future, cars on our roads will be equipped with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology enabling them to communicate with each other and forming a large self-organized ad hoc network. These networks are called vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). In this talk, we first identify some security and privacy challenges in VANETs. Then, we look into how to integrate social links into VANETs. Specifically, we study social behavior and interaction in VANETs and then propose a social-aware, secure and privacy-preserving packet forwarding scheme. With the proposed scheme, Roadside Units (RSUs) deployed along the roadside can assist in packet forwarding to achieve highly reliable transmissions, which is considered critical for many vehicle applications. In specific, we heuristically define how to evaluate each traffic intersection’s social degree in a VANET. Based on the social degree information, we then strategically place RSUs at some high-social intersections. As a result, these RSUs can provide tremendous assistance in temporarily storing packets and helping packet forwarding in order to achieve high delivery ratio in a cost-efficient way. Furthermore, these RSUs can form a mix network to shuffle messages transmitted over vehicular network. As a result, security and privacy of vehicular communications can be guaranteed.

报告人简介：

Xiaodong Lin received the PhD degree in Information Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and the PhD degree (with Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies Award) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada.

His research interests include wireless communications and network security, computer forensics, software security, and applied cryptography. Dr. Lin serves as an Associate Editor for many international journals. He has served or is serving as a guest editor for many special issues of IEEE, Elsevier and Springer journals and as a symposium chair or track chair for IEEE/ACM conferences. He also served on many program committees. He currently serves as Chair of Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC) – IEEE Communications Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.