Performance Analysis of an RFID Key Management Scheme for Vehicular Networks

In this paper we analyze the performance of an RFID Key Management scheme to be applied in VANETs. As often being considered as a precondition for the realization of the Internet of Things (IoT), RFID can be utilized in the vehicles, so as to make the vehicles identifiable and inventoriable by computers as long as they are fitted out with radio tags. One of the public concerns is likely to focus on a certain large number of security and privacy issues. Various light symmetric key management schemes will be proposed for different RFID scenarios. In order to perform a reliable and trusted authentication, one prerequisite is to ensure the credibility of RFIDs by means of digital certificate validation. We propose a certificate revocation status validation scheme called EKA2, using the concept of clustering from data mining to evaluate the trustiness of digital certificates.