. . . "Worcester Polytechnic Institute" . . "2018" . "Doroz, Yarkin" . "Venkatasubramanian, Krishna Kumar" . "2023-12-05T11:10:24.01788385-05:00"^^ . "http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" . . "Wyglinski, Alexander" . "Doroz, Yarkin" . "Venkatasubramanian, Krishna Kumar" . "MS" . "Wyglinski, Alexander" . "Etd" . "2019-07-01T19:09:45.782803196+00:00"^^ . "Electrical & Computer Engineering" . "etd-121918-165557" . "English" . "depositor@wpi.edu" . . "2018-12-19" . "Stegall, Jabari" . "2018-12-17" . . "Thesis" . "Framework for Anonymous Secure Data Transfer in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks" . "Ad-Hoc" . "VANET" . "Crypto" . "Iot" . "Data Transfer" . "Anonymous" . "Networks" . . "With the increasing number of Vehicular Autonomous Network (VANET) architectures and applications, user privacy must be addressed and protected. Internet of Things (IoT) and their\r\napplications take care of everyday mundane task in order to increase user convenience and productivity. However, studies have shown that IoT architectures can be a weak spot in network security,\r\nincluding data being sent plain text. In this thesis, a VANET architecture is proposed that is\r\ncapable of securing anonymous data collection from a distributed set of autonomous vehicles. The\r\nproposed architecture features a hybrid combination of centralized and decentralized routing concepts. Unlike other VANET implementations, our proposed architecture provides anonymity to\r\nusers in the network. Lower latency can be achieved by merging data from live short-range ad-hoc routing methods with the data collected from a pseudo-live long range centralized routing\r\nmethods. The proposed architecture guarantees user anonymity within the VANET framework.\r\nMost VANET models assume users do not value the privacy of their identity. We assume that\r\neach vehicle is equipped with a VANET computer capable of storing data, performing calculations,\r\nand both sending and receiving data wirelessly. Therefore vehicles can communicate directly with\r\neach other and exchange data within short distances as well as communicate with long-range\r\nwireless infrastructure. Simulation results show the implementation is equipped to handle diverse\r\ntraffic scenarios as well as deter adversaries to the network from maliciously trying to manipulate\r\ncollected data." . . "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . . . . .